Gene Tierney quotes Born: 11/19/1920 Died: 00/00/1991 Country: usa

• About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient. (Gene Tierney) [career]
• As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all. (Gene Tierney)
• Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses. (Gene Tierney)
• Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money. (Gene Tierney) [money]
• Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not. (Gene Tierney) [people]
• Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit. (Gene Tierney) [day/day/talent/being]
• Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set. (Gene Tierney) [behavior/movie]
• Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test. (Gene Tierney) [think/eyes]
• Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew. (Gene Tierney) [actors]
• For Miss Dietrich, I dressed in my very best. (Gene Tierney)
• For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio. (Gene Tierney) [question]
• Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems. (Gene Tierney) [women]
• Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator. (Gene Tierney)
• I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction. (Gene Tierney)
• I always tried to play my hunches. (Gene Tierney)
• I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be. (Gene Tierney)
• I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity. (Gene Tierney) [family]
• 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) [housing]
• I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none. (Gene Tierney) [men]
• I did go to the Menninger Clinic hoping, or expecting, to be released quickly. (Gene Tierney)
• I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection. (Gene Tierney)
• I existed in a world that never is-the prison of the mind. (Gene Tierney) [prison/mind]
• I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions. (Gene Tierney)
• I grew up during those years when well-to-do children in the Northeast had European governesses. (Gene Tierney)
• I had been forced to give up one daughter, born retarded, and had lately neglected another. (Gene Tierney) [give]
• I had been in two mental hospitals in three years. (Gene Tierney)
• I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed. (Gene Tierney) [contract]
• I had fallen in love twice with the wrong men. (Gene Tierney) [love/men]
• 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) [housing/people]
• I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man. (Gene Tierney) [interest]
• I had traveled across Europe at 9, and returned at 15 to spend two years at a Swiss boarding school. (Gene Tierney) [europe/school]

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