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
The role of a female outlaw was not exactly custom-made for someone recently out of a finishing-school!
Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.
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.
Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.
We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.
Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.
Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.
The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.
Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.
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.