Gene Tierney Quotes - Page 2

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

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

Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.

In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

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

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

I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.

Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

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

My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.

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

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

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

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

I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's considerable rewards, I was hungry for most of those twenty years.

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

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

there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

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.

I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

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

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

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

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.