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

I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.

   

I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.

   

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

   

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.

   

I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.

   

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

   

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

   

I used up every cent I earned as an actress.

   

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.

   

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

   

Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.

   

I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.

   

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

   

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

   

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

   

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

   

Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.

   

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

   

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

   

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

   

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