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67 quotes by Gene Tierney

Gene Eliza Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as a great beauty, she became established as a leading lady. Tierney was best known for her portrayal of the title character in the film Laura (1944), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Ellen Berent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Tierney's notable roles include Martha Strable Van Cleve in...
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I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.

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I used up every cent I earned as an actress.

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I was not cut out to be a rebel.

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

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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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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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