Gene Tierney Quotes

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Gene Tierney

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 19, 1920

I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.

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I used up every cent I earned as an actress.

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I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

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I simply did not want my face to be my talent.

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I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.

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I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.

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I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

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I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

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I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.

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I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.

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I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

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I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

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I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?

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I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

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I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

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I always tried to play my hunches.

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I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

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Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

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Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems.

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Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

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