Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.
Gene Tierney
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Time
Neurotic
Fashion
Actors
Stills
Still
Feel
Feels
Would
More quotes by Gene Tierney
I simply did not want my face to be my talent.
Gene Tierney
I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.
Gene Tierney
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.
Gene Tierney
A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.
Gene Tierney
I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.
Gene Tierney
Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.
Gene Tierney
When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb
Gene Tierney
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?
Gene Tierney
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
Gene Tierney
I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.
Gene Tierney
I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.
Gene Tierney
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
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.
Gene Tierney
In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed someone else must fail.
Gene Tierney
Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.
Gene Tierney
The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title
Gene Tierney
Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.
Gene Tierney
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.
Gene Tierney
I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.
Gene Tierney
I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.
Gene Tierney
