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
A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.
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.
Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.
Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.
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.
For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.
Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.
I used up every cent I earned as an actress.
There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.
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 had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.