Gene Tierney Quotes
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Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
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I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.
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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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The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.
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About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.
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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 later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.
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I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.
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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.
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I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.
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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.
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Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.
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I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.
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The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.
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I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.
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Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.
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Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.
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I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.
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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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I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
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I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
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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.
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Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.