Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.
– Gene Tierney
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
– Gene Tierney
The role of a female outlaw was not exactly custom-made for someone recently out of a finishing-school!
– Gene Tierney
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
– Gene Tierney
Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.
– Gene Tierney
The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
– Gene Tierney
Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.
– 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.
– Gene Tierney
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.
– Gene Tierney
I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.
– Gene Tierney
I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.
– 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 had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
– Gene Tierney
I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.
– Gene Tierney
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?
– Gene Tierney
I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.