Quotes from Gene Tierney

I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.

Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

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

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.

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

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

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

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

In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.

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

Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.

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