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Gene Tierney Quotes About Career

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

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

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.

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

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

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

Gene Tierney Quotes About Life

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

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

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

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

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

More Quotes by Gene Tierney

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

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.

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

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

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.

Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

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

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

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

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

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.

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

Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.

Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.

I used up every cent I earned as an actress.

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

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

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?

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