Quotes By Gene Tierney

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

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

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.

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.

I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.

For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.

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

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