Gene Tierney Quotes

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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.

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

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Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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?

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The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.

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When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I saw things no one else could see. I could see evil in a toothbrush. I could see God in a light bulb.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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