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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I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.

Gene Tierney

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

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

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

Gene Tierney

I was not cut out to be a rebel.

Gene Tierney

I used up every cent I earned as an actress.

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.

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

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

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.

Gene Tierney

It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

Author Bio

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