Gene Tierney Quotes - Page 2

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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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• I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

  Gene Tierney

  Sexy, Intelligent, Mind

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

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• I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

  Gene Tierney

  Sexy, Jobs, Intelligent

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

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• Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.

  Gene Tierney

  Car, Weakness, Fur

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

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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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• I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

  Gene Tierney

  Birthday, Hollywood, Sparks

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• As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.

  Gene Tierney

  Actresses, Emotion, Shows

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

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• I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.

  Gene Tierney

  Fun, Commitment, Dozen

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

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• Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.

  Gene Tierney

  Movie, Failure, Six

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

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• About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

  Gene Tierney

  Careers, Serious, Sometimes

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

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• The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title

  Gene Tierney

  Jobs, Titles, Actresses

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

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• Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

  Gene Tierney

  Eccentric, Behavior, Movie Sets

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

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• 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.

  Gene Tierney

  Parent, Littles, Arguing

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

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• We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

  Gene Tierney

  Europe, Numbers, People

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

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• Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

  Gene Tierney

  Passion, Should Have, House

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

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• Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

  Gene Tierney

  Actors, Timing, Gary

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

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• I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's considerable rewards, I was hungry for most of those twenty years.

  Gene Tierney

  Sexy, Intelligent, Years

  "Self-portrait".

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• The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

  Gene Tierney

  Daughter, Mother, Feelings

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

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• I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

  Gene Tierney

  Father, Annoyed, Luck

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

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• there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

  Gene Tierney

  Failure, Way, Failing

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

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• In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

  Gene Tierney

  War, Ocean, Europe

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

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• I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

  Gene Tierney

  Nature, Charm, Not Sure

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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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• Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

  Gene Tierney

  Broken Heart, Cures, Feels

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

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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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