Top 35 Gene Tierney Quotes

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

I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.

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

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb.

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

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.

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

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.

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

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let’s Pretend, it’s often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

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

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

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

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.

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

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.

I used up every cent I earned as an actress.

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

I was not cut out to be a rebel.

I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.

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

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

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

My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.

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

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

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.

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

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

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.

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

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

I existed in a world that never is – the prison of the mind.