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Gene Tierney [1920-1991] American

Rank: 101
Actress, Film actress

Gene Eliza Tierney was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as a great beauty, she became established as a leading lady.

Beauty, Birthday, Dating, Diet, Jealousy, Moving On, Romantic

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Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.	Jealousy	101
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.		102
I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.		103
When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.		104
When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb.		105
Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.		106
I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.		107
Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.	Moving On	108
I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.	Birthday	109
Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.		110
I was not cut out to be a rebel.		111
I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.		112
I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.	Dating	113
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.	Beauty	114
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.		115
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.		116
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.		117
I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.		118
I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.		119
We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.		120
The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.		121
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.		122
I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.		123
I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.	Diet	124
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.		125
I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.		126
Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.		201
Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.		202
Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.		203
Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.		204
The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.		205
My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.		206
It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.		207
In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.		208
I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.		209
I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.		210
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?		211
I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.		212
I always tried to play my hunches.		213
Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.		214
Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.		215
Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.		216
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.		217
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.		218
Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.		219
The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.		220
The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.		221
My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.		222
Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.		223
In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.		224
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.		225
I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.		226
I used up every cent I earned as an actress.		301
I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.		302
I simply did not want my face to be my talent.		303
I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.		304
I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.		305
I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.		306
I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.	Romantic	307
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.		308
Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems.		309
For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.		310
Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.		311
Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.		312
Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.		313
As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.		314
About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.		315

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