Gene Tierney Quotes
Top 75 wise famous quotes and sayings by Gene Tierney
Gene Tierney Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.
When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb.
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?
Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot.
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
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 followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.
My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.
I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.
We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.
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.
When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.
It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.
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.
Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.
Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.
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 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.
There are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.