Gene Tierney Quotes

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

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 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.

I used up every cent I had earned as an actress.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My own mother was my darling.

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.

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

there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

I was not cut out to be a rebel.

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

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