Gene Tierney

I always tried to play my hunches.

— Gene Tierney

I was not cut out to be a rebel.

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

Where there is hope, there is no despair.

— Gene Tierney

“I existed in a world that never is , a prison of the mind.”

— Gene Tierney

I used up every cent I had earned as an actress.

— Gene Tierney

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

— Gene Tierney

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

— 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

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

— Gene Tierney

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

— Gene Tierney

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a…

— Gene Tierney

Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.

— Gene Tierney

I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.

— Gene Tierney

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

— Gene Tierney

I used up every cent I earned as an actress.

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

— Gene Tierney

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

— Gene Tierney

A flame burns brightest just before it goes out.

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

— Gene Tierney

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

— Gene Tierney