Explore Quotes by Gene Tierney

I used up every cent I had earned as an actress.

In later years, during what might be called my gray-outs — when I was conscious but not myself — I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

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.

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

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

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

Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

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

I simply did not want my face to be my talent.