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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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