Gene Tierney Quotes

United States, Actress
November 19, 1920 – November, 6, 1991.

Gene Eliza Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as a great beauty, she became established as a leading lady. Tierney was best known for her portrayal of the title character in the film Laura (1944), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Ellen Berent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven (1945).

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

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

Gene Tierney
- People
- Children

I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.

Gene Tierney
I simply did not want my face to be my talent.

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

Gene Tierney
- Men
- Fun
I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.

Gene Tierney
- Live
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.

Gene Tierney
- Up
- World
- War
Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

Gene Tierney
- Long
- Pool

I always tried to play my hunches.

Gene Tierney
Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.

Gene Tierney
I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

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

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

Gene Tierney
- Life
The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.

Gene Tierney

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

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

Gene Tierney
- Up
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