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Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder. — Tierney Gearon

She's another Deanna Durbin,' [Harry] Cohn said, 'except that she can't sing. — Gene Tierney

Where's my food? When is it coming? What did I order, anyway? — Lawrence Tierney

It's a life-changing thing to be in a position of needing help and being so lucky as to get it. — Maura Tierney

I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera. — Gene Tierney

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

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity. — Gene Tierney

Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses. — Gene Tierney

I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus. — Maura Tierney

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

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

A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design! — Neil Tierney

I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years. — Gene Tierney

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

My answer to a lot of things is to go to work. That's not everybody's answer. — Maura Tierney

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

I'll fight for you, even if it means fighting you for you. — Sibylla Matilde

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

Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved. — Maura Tierney

He told me I was breathtaking. He told me I was brave. He told me I was his. — Sibylla Matilde

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

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. — Gene Tierney

The zodiac's twelve signs are said to represent powerful archetypes that are universal in theme. — Bil Tierney

In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail. — Gene Tierney

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

I was not cut out to be a rebel. — Gene Tierney

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? — Gene Tierney

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

I always tried to play my hunches. — Gene Tierney

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

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

I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense. — Daniel Okrent

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

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

Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot. — Gene Tierney

I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging. — Gene Tierney

I remember just how afraid I was. I was just as much afraid of the treatment as the diagnosis. So I thought I could talk about it in an authentic way. — Maura Tierney

You are the only thing I've ever needed. The only treasure that matters.
- Seamus Tierney — Libby Bishop

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

I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act. — Gene Tierney

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

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

I have so many insecurities they fight for prominence. — Maura Tierney

Be it in the rough-and-tumble world of inner-city politics or the bare-knuckle boxing ring, the Irish rightly earned their fightin' moniker. — Rashers Tierney

The Best of Pointless Conversations — Scott Tierney

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

If I was US Lacrosse, I wouldn't let any kids play field until they were 10 or 12, — Bill Tierney

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. — Gene Tierney

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

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau. — Gene Tierney

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. — Gene Tierney

Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday. — Lawrence Tierney

A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn. — Gene Tierney

The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep. — Gene Tierney

Where there is hope, there is no despair. — Gene Tierney

Like so many things in life, a well-poured pint of Guinness is worth waiting for. — Rashers Tierney

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

Everyone in my family has seen me cry before. — Maura Tierney

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

A flame burns brightest just before it goes out. — Gene Tierney

I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions. — Gene Tierney

Until box lacrosse grows in the United States, it'll continue to be this way. — Bill Tierney

I existed in a world that never is , a prison of the mind. — Gene Tierney

I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none. — Gene Tierney

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. — Gene Tierney

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

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

I don't have much patience with sick people. — Maura Tierney

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

I simply did not want my face to be my talent. — Gene Tierney

I love Martin Amis. — Maura Tierney

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

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

Put good energy out. Get good energy back. — Lawrence Tierney

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. — Gene Tierney

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

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

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set. — Gene Tierney

As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all. — Gene Tierney

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

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

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator. — Gene Tierney

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

There are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes. — Gene Tierney

Everyone that ever met me has been in love with me. — Lawrence Tierney

You can't just take care of everybody else all the time. — Maura Tierney

No one but Gene Tierney could have played 'Laura.' There was no other actress around with her particular combination of beauty, breeding, and mystery. — Vincent Price

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction. — Gene Tierney

Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself. — Lawrence Tierney

I'm not really the nurturer type. — Maura Tierney

I wish I had a little more joy of cooking - because mostly I have anxiety of cooking. I'm so proud when things come out well. — Maura Tierney

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

Nevermind what you normally would do. Just cough up your goddam buck like everyone else. — Lawrence Tierney

My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge. — Terence Stamp

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. — Gene Tierney

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

In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy. — Maura Tierney

Being bald is no fun. — Maura Tierney

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

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. — Gene Tierney