Top 88 Quotes & Sayings by Gene Tierney - Page 2

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Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

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I always tried to play my hunches.

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I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

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Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems.

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As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.

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Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

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Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

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Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot.

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In later years, during what might be called my gray-outs — when I was conscious but not myself — I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

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I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?

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In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

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there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

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

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A flame burns brightest just before it goes out.

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we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.

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The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.

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A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

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I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My own mother was my darling.

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When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb

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I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's considerable rewards, I was hungry for most of those twenty years.

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Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.

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I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

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I used up every cent I had earned as an actress.

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Where there is hope, there is no despair.

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that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

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My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.

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Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.

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I had been introduced to psychotherapy, in which the doctors let you talk, talk, talk, until you find the source of your problem or find another doctor.

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Top 88 Quotes & Sayings by Gene Tierney - Page 2

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