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

Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.
- Gene Tierney Quote

Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.
- Gene Tierney Quote

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.
- Gene Tierney Quote

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

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

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.
- Gene Tierney Quote

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.
- Gene Tierney Quote

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.
- Gene Tierney Quote

I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?
- Gene Tierney Quote

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

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

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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I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.
- Gene Tierney Quote

I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.
- Gene Tierney Quote

I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.
- Gene Tierney Quote

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.
- Gene Tierney Quote

I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.
- Gene Tierney Quote

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

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

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

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 Quote

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

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

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

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

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 Quote

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

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 Quote

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

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 Quote

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

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

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 Quote

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 Quote

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