Quotes by Gene Tierney

About Gene Tierney:

Gene Eliza Tierney was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as a great beauty, she became established as a leading lady. Tierney was best known for her portrayal of the title character in the film Laura (1944), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Ellen Berent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven (1945).
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We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

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 or screen.

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

Gene Tierney

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

Gene Tierney

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

Gene Tierney

I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.

Gene Tierney

I always tried to play my hunches.

Gene Tierney

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

Gene Tierney

Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

Author Bio

  • NameGene Tierney
  • DescriptionAmerican actress
  • BornNovember 19, 1920
  • DiedNovember 6, 1991
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Autobiographer