Gene Tierney Quotes

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

  Gene Tierney

  Topics in Life

• 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.

  Gene Tierney

  Topics in Father, Sacrifice

  Tags in Hard Work

• 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.

  Gene Tierney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Europe, Familiar

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Feeling, Smarter

• 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.

  Gene Tierney

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in President, Serious

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

  Gene Tierney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Europe, Holocaust

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

  Gene Tierney

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Wealth, Fame, Transient

• 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.

  Gene Tierney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actors And Acting, Stage, Chemistry

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

  Gene Tierney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hollywood, Structure, Monopolistic

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

  Gene Tierney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Career, Professions

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

  Gene Tierney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hollywood, Departure

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

  Gene Tierney

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Self

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

  Gene Tierney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men, Wonderful

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

  Gene Tierney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Jealousy, Victim, Parties

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mental, Diseases

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

  Gene Tierney

  Topics in Life

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

  Gene Tierney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actors, Neurotic

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Tendency, Europe, Trouble

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

  Gene Tierney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Economical, Hollywood

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

  Gene Tierney

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in President

Gene Tierney (67)

Birth:	19th November, 1920
Death:	6th November, 1991
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Gene Eliza Tierney was born in Brooklyn, New York city, New York, USA. She was an American film and stage actress. She was best known for her portrayal of the title character in the film Laura, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Ellen Berent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven. Her role in other films include: Heaven Can Wait , The Razor's Edge, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Whirlpool, and The Left Hand of God. Her role in television include: Daughter of the Mind, Scruples, and Biography.

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