Gene Tierney Quotes

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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
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.

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

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

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

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I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

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I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.

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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.

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