Quotes from Gene Tierney

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

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

I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.

I used up every cent I earned as an actress.

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.

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

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

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

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?

Where there is hope, there is no despair.

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

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

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

Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

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

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

A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

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

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

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

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

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