When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.
By : Gene Tierney
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.
By : Gene Tierney
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.
By : Gene Tierney
We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.
By : 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.
By : Gene Tierney
When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb.
By : Gene Tierney
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
By : Gene Tierney
For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.
By : Gene Tierney
Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.
By : Gene Tierney
Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.
By : Gene Tierney
Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.
By : Gene Tierney
As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.
By : Gene Tierney
Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.
By : Gene Tierney
My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.
By : 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.
By : Gene Tierney
I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.
By : Gene Tierney
In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.
By : Gene Tierney
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.
By : Gene Tierney
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.
By : Gene Tierney
It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.
By : Gene Tierney
Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.
By : Gene Tierney
Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.
By : 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.
By : 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.
By : Gene Tierney
The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.
By : Gene Tierney
There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.
By : Gene Tierney