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
It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors. - 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. - Gene Tierney
In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress. - Gene Tierney
I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera. - Gene Tierney
I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years. - Gene Tierney
My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up. - 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. - Gene Tierney
I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came. - 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
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 was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men. - Gene Tierney