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.
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.
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.
Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.
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 plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.
I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.
I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.