98 Quotes by Gene Tierney

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

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.

I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.

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

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

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?

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

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