Quote

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

Gene Tierney

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gene Tierney
Age: 70 †
Born: 1920
Born: November 19
Died: 1991
Died: November 6
Actor
Autobiographer
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Actress
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Brooklyn
New York
Gene Eliza Tierney
Loving
Understand
Children
People
Suddenly

More quotes by Gene Tierney

Image
Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.
Gene Tierney
Image
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Gene Tierney
Image
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.
Gene Tierney
Image
Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.
Gene Tierney
Image
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.
Gene Tierney
Image
About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.
Gene Tierney
Image
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.
Gene Tierney
Image
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.
Gene Tierney
Image
I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.
Gene Tierney
Image
The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.
Gene Tierney
Image
We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.
Gene Tierney
Image
My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
Gene Tierney
Image
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.
Gene Tierney
Image
I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.
Gene Tierney
Image
It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.
Gene Tierney
Image
Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.
Gene Tierney
Image
I simply did not want my face to be my talent.
Gene Tierney
Image
I used up every cent I had earned as an actress.
Gene Tierney
Image
Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.
Gene Tierney
Image
I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.
Gene Tierney