Gene Tierney
24 quotes
Biography
"Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need still to be useful, even though the parts get fewer."
"The word "actress" has always seemed less a job description to me than a title."
"Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties."
"As long as I was playing someone else, I was fine. When I had to be myself, my problems began."
"I learned that carrying on while you're broken is not the answer. I tried to work harder and harder, thinking that work would cure everything. All it did was make things worse."
"I traveled in a world that once was—Hollywood of the war and immediate postwar years. And I existed in a world that never is—the prison of the mind. If what I have learned from these experiences can be summed up in one sentence, it would be this: life is not a movie. But I do not make that point in a sad or regretful way. I can only wonder, if my life had been a movie, would a director have cast Gene Tierney to play the part? The bitter with the sweet makes for a better part."
"Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful."
"Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau."
"I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed."
"The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941."
"I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions."
"I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity."
"I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past."
"Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain."
"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?"
"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."
"Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau."
"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man."
"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."
"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."
"Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau."
"I existed in a world that never is , a prison of the mind."
"I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none."
"Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses."