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

• My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up. (Gene Tierney)
• My father demanded obedience from his children. (Gene Tierney) [obedience]
• My father sent me to school abroad because he wanted to give me the best possible education. (Gene Tierney) [school/give/education]
• My mother was a gymnastics teacher. (Gene Tierney) [mother]
• 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) [mother/roof]
• On location, I enjoyed the company of Jeanne Crain. (Gene Tierney) [company]
• Otto Preminger was a fine actor in Europe who went on to become more renowned as a director. (Gene Tierney) [europe/more/director]
• 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. (Gene Tierney) [provide/stage]
• Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau. (Gene Tierney) [women]
• The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios. (Gene Tierney)
• The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941. (Gene Tierney) [change]
• 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) [face/feelings]
• The part of Laura brought my only nomination for an Academy Award. (Gene Tierney) [award]
• The studio bosses liked that I was not difficult. The public perceived me as a nice person and held me blameless. (Gene Tierney) [bosses/nice]
• The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title. (Gene 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) [time/rest/day]
• Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain. (Gene Tierney) [pain]
• 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) [career/aristocrat]
• Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish. (Gene Tierney) [order/life]
• Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie. (Gene Tierney) [stage/bad/movie]
• We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust. (Gene Tierney) [people/europe]
• We lived in the Connecticut countryside and spent our summers on Long Island in neat, rented bungalows. (Gene Tierney)
• Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful. (Gene Tierney) [wealth/beauty/fame]
• 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) [europe/mother]
• Whatever the reasons, Laura had the chemistry. The movie became a cult favorite. (Gene Tierney) [movie]
• 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) []
• 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) [high/normal/god/light]
• 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) [life]

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