98 Quotes by Gene Tierney

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.

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

we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.

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

I had been introduced to psychotherapy, in which the doctors let you talk, talk, talk, until you find the source of your problem or find another doctor.

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.

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.

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

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