Quotes By Gene Tierney

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.

Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.

What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems.

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.