Quotes By Gene Tierney

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

Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

I was not cut out to be a rebel.

I used up every cent I earned as an actress.

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.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

I always tried to play my hunches.

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

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.

I simply did not want my face to be my talent.

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb.

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

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

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.

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

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

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.

I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.

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

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

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