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
Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
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.
The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title
I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.
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.