Self-portrait
A source page for quotes linked to Gene Tierney.
“I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.”
“I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.”
“I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.”
“The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.”
“A flame burns brightest just before it goes out.”
“A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.”
“Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.”
“I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.”
“I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.”
“Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.”
“I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.”
“I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.”
“About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.”
“Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.”
“Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.”
“I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.”
“I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.”
“I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.”
“I simply did not want my face to be my talent.”
“I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.”
“I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.”
“Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.”
“Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.”
“Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.”
“For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.”
“Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.”
“I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.”