Gene Tierney was a famous Actress from USA, who lived between November 19, 1920 and November 6, 1991. She became 70 years old.
Zodiac:
She is born under the zodiac scorpio, who is known for Transient, Self-Willed, Purposeful, Unyielding.
Our collection contains 55 quotes who is written / told by Gene, under the main topic Diet.
"I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity"
"In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening"
"I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past"
"I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother"
"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 had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed"
"I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection"
"The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941"
"I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came"
"I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions"
"In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress"
"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 needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act"
"I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none"
"I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction"
"Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems"
"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"
"Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful"
"The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title"
"I simply did not want my face to be my talent"
"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"
"We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust"
"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"
"I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be"
"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator"
"About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient"
"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"
"The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings"
"My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg"
"My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up"
"Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt"
"I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging"
"I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera"
"Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set"
"Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money"
"Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses"
"Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie"
"Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides"
"Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties"
"It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors"
"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"
"I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years"
"I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read"
"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?"
"Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit"
"When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists"
"When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb"
"I was not cut out to be a rebel"
"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man"
