Gene Tierney

I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

— Gene Tierney

“She's another Deanna Durbin,' [Harry] Cohn said, 'except that she can't sing.”

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

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

— 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 was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

— Gene Tierney

What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend…

— Gene Tierney

There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another…

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

— 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

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

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

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

A flame burns brightest just before it goes out.

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.

— Gene Tierney

Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.

— Gene Tierney

Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you…

— 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

I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.

— Gene Tierney

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

— 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

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

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

— Gene Tierney

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I…

— Gene Tierney

I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead…

— 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