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
Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.
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.
When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb
I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.
I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.
that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.
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.
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.
Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.