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
In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.
I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.
The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.
As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.
Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.
A flame burns brightest just before it goes out.
Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.
Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot.
We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.
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 admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.
I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.