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Gene Tierney
November 19, 1920 - November 6, 1991
Nationality: American
Category: Actress
Subcategory: American Actress

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

   

I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

   

I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

   

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

   

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

   

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.

   

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

   

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.

   

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

   

Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.

   

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.

   

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

   

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

   

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

   

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.

   

I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.

   

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.

   

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

   

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

   

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.

   

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