Gene Tierney Quotes

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• Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.
• The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
• I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.
• 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.
• The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title
• When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb
• 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 was…
• Where there is hope, there is no despair.
• I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.
• I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.
• I was not cut out to be a rebel.
• I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.
• The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
• Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.
• 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…
• 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…
• I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.
• Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
• I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.

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