I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me. — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress. — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past. — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt. — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test. — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
