Gene Tierney Quotes - Page 3

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• I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.

  Gene Tierney

  Years, Meat, Salad

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• The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

  Gene Tierney

  Running, Hollywood, Four

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

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• I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.

  Gene Tierney

  Salary

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

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• What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.

  Gene Tierney

  Mother, Brother, Europe

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

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• I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.

  Gene Tierney

  Accepted, Needed

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

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• Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

  Gene Tierney

  Long, Afternoon, Talent

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

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• I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

  Gene Tierney

  Father, Hard Work, Sacrifice

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

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• I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?

  Gene Tierney

  Home, Agriculture, Medication

  "Self-Portrait".

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• Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

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  Girl, Careers, Chinese

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

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• It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.

  Gene Tierney

  Fashion, Actors, Feels

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

  Gene Tierney

  Men, Emotional, Directors

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• I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.

  Gene Tierney

  Men, Interest, Older Man

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

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• I was not cut out to be a rebel.

  Gene Tierney

  Cutting, Rebel

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

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• I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

  Gene Tierney

  Reflection, Mirrors, Long

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

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• 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.

  Gene Tierney

  Rehearsal, Rooms, Chemistry

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

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• When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

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  Dream, Men, Serious

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• I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My own mother was my darling.

  Gene Tierney

  Mother, Doctors, Littles

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

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• In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

  Gene Tierney

  Mother, Clothes, Hollywood

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

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• I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

  Gene Tierney

  War, Generations, Way

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• In later years, during what might be called my gray-outs — when I was conscious but not myself — I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

  Gene Tierney

  Years, Fattening

  "Self-Portrait".

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• Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.

  Gene Tierney

  Helpful, Found, Stage

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• I used up every cent I had earned as an actress.

  Gene Tierney

  Actresses, Used, Cents

  "Self-Portrait".

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• Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.

  Gene Tierney

  Son, Spending, Chaplin

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

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• For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.

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  Years, Judgment, Studios

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

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• I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.

  Gene Tierney

  New York, Home, People

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

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