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
When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.
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.
In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.
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 had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
I had been introduced to psychotherapy, in which the doctors let you talk, talk, talk, until you find the source of your problem or find another doctor.
I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.
Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.
I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.
Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.
I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.
The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.