In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.
Gene Tierney

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

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.
Gene Tierney

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
Gene Tierney

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

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

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.
Gene Tierney

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

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
Gene Tierney

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

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

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

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

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

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

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.
Gene Tierney

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

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.
Gene Tierney