Quote

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

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
Understood
Walk
Walks
Swag
Cracking
Swagger
Departure
Described
Hollywood

More quotes by 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
I used up every cent I had earned as an actress.
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
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
Image
About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.
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
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
Image
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
Image
that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.
Gene Tierney
Image
I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.
Gene Tierney
Image
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Gene Tierney
Image
I simply did not want my face to be my talent.
Gene Tierney
Image
The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title
Gene Tierney
Image
Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.
Gene Tierney
Image
Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.
Gene Tierney
Image
I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.
Gene Tierney
Image
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
Image
Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.
Gene Tierney
Image
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