Top 33 Gene Tierney Quotes

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My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
Gene Tierney
Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.
Gene Tierney
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
Gene Tierney
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
I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.
Gene Tierney
It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.
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Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.
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
Children don’t understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.
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The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter’s unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
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Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.
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I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.
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I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.
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Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems.
Gene Tierney
Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.
Gene Tierney
I’m not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy’s charm, but he took life just as it came.
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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.
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I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.
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I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.
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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.
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Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.
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I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.
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I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.
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Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.
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As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.
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In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother’s distress.
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I was not cut out to be a rebel.
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I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.
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We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.
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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.
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I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.
Gene Tierney
When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I

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
I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.
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