Quotes from Gene Tierney

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

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 approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

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

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.

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

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?

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

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

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

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

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

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

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

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.

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

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.