Gene Tierney Quotes

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

Jealousy, Makes, Both

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

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.
Gene Tierney

Addiction, Anyone, Himself

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

Moving On, Women, Best

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

Others, Fine, Cheering

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, Important, Easy

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

Career, Sometimes, Serious

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

Children, Understand, Loving

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

Family, Job, Everything

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

Work, Men, Emotional

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, Same, Sometimes

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

Beauty, Left, Wealth

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

Show, Emotion, Actress

Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.
Gene Tierney

Cars, Weaknesses, Gems

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

Money, Gave, Spending

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

Long, After, Talk

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

Around, Movie, Behavior

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

Girl, Through, Eyes

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

Best, Sense, Knew

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

Question, Judgment, Studio

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

Women, Hard, Problems

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

Houses, Interior, Passions

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

Mistakes, Woman, Her

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: November 19, 1920

Died: November 6, 1991

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