Gene Tierney Quotes

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

Life, Message, Winds

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

Men, Doubt, Give

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

Hollywood, Understood, Departure

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, Long, Talk

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

Between, Often, Chemistry

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, After, Knew

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

Feelings, Face, Cause

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.
Gene Tierney

Job, Word, Less

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

History, Pain, Become

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

Girl, Career, Frontier

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

Life, Trying, Order

Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.
Gene Tierney

Good, Bad, Found

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.
Gene Tierney

Cannot, Left, Ahead

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

Mother, Different, Brother

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

Young, Serious, Dream

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

God, Light, High

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: November 19, 1920

Died: November 6, 1991

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