Gene Tierney

I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title

— Gene Tierney

Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage…

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

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

Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.

— Gene Tierney

Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was…

— Gene Tierney

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to…

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.

— Gene Tierney

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems.

— Gene Tierney

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

— Gene Tierney

I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

— Gene Tierney

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own…

— Gene Tierney

In later years, during what might be called my gray-outs — when I was conscious but not myself — I craved foods…

— Gene Tierney

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

— Gene Tierney

My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still…

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My…

— Gene Tierney

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

— Gene Tierney