Gene Tierney Quotes

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• I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

  Gene Tierney

  Life, Wind, Actresses

  "Self-portrait".

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• A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

  Gene Tierney

  Thinking, Rose, Careless

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.

  Gene Tierney

  Sleep

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

  Gene Tierney

  Sexy, Intelligent, Needs

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• 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.

  Gene Tierney

  Character, Pride, Melting

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot.

  Gene Tierney

  Determination

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• I simply did not want my face to be my talent.

  Gene Tierney

  Sexy, Intelligent, Want

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• A flame burns brightest just before it goes out.

  Gene Tierney

  Flames, Intensity

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Where there is hope, there is no despair.

  Gene Tierney

  Despair, There Is Hope

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• I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

  Gene Tierney

  Past, Able, Rediscovery

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

  Gene Tierney

  Addiction, Admire

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

  Gene Tierney

  Girl, Teenage, Eye

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.

  Gene Tierney

  Men, Giving, Doubt

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb

  Gene Tierney

  Light, Secret, Normal

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

  Gene Tierney

  Swag, Hollywood, Departure

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• 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.

  Gene Tierney

  Writing, Glasses, Disease

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• I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

  Gene Tierney

  Eye, Cameras, Columbia

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

  Gene Tierney

  Order, Trying, Jellyfish

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.

  Gene Tierney

  Cheer, Cheer Up, Fine

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

  Gene Tierney

  Mistake, Kind, Excuse

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• When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

  Gene Tierney

  Symbolism, Important, Easy

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

  Gene Tierney

  Pain, Chronic Pain, Ill

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• 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.

  Gene Tierney

  Girl, Foxes, Century

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• In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

  Gene Tierney

  Succeed, Failing, Enough

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

  Gene Tierney

  Jealousy, Party, Thinking

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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