Gene Tierney Quotes
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I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.
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Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.
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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.
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I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.
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Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.
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I had been introduced to psychotherapy, in which the doctors let you talk, talk, talk, until you find the source of your problem or find another doctor.
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Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.
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I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.
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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.
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Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.
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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.
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we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.
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As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.
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I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.
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I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.
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Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.
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Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.
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Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.
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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.
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The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
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I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.
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A flame burns brightest just before it goes out.
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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.
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Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.
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Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.
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In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.
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Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.
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Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.
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Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.
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there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.
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