Gene Tierney
Gene Tierney
Gene Eliza Tierney was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as a great beauty, she became established as a leading lady. Tierney was best known for her portrayal of the title character in the film Laura, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Ellen Berent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth19 November 1920
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.
The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title
My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.
I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.
Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.
I used up every cent I earned as an actress.