Gene Tierney Quotes

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Gene Tierney

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 19, 1920

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.

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I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

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

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Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

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Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.

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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.

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

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Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

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Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

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About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

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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.

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Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

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When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb.

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The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.

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

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

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

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When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

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When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

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What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.

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