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Gene Tierney Quotes

Actress
Born On
1920-11-19
Died On
1991-11-06
Birth Place
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
Death Place
Houston, Texas, United States
Birth Sign
scorpio
Father
Howard Tierney
Mother
Belle Taylor
Spouse
Oleg Cassini, W. Howard Lee
Nationality
American
Education
St. Margaret's School (Waterbury, Connecticut), Unquowa School (Fairfield, Connecticut), Brillantmont International School Miss Porter's School

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

Gene Tierney

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

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

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

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.

Gene Tierney

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

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

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

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney