Quotes from Gene Tierney

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

I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

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

Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

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

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

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I was not cut out to be a rebel.

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

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

Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot.

I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

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

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

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

I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My own mother was my darling.

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