Gene Tierney Quotes

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Gene Tierney

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 19, 1920

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

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Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.

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Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

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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.

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The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.

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The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

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The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

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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.

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My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.

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

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Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.

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

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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.

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

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In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

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

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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.

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I was not cut out to be a rebel.

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I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.

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

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