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
I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.
I simply did not want my face to be my talent.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
The role of a female outlaw was not exactly custom-made for someone recently out of a finishing-school!
Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems.
My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.
I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.
I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.
Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.
The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.
Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.
Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.