actress Beauty model Icon star I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be. - Gene Tierney
Eye I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera. - Gene Tierney
Time It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors. - Gene Tierney
Hollywood Years I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years. - Gene Tierney
The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up. - Patty Duke
Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it. - Karen Allen