Gene Tierney
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.Collection: Jealousy
I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.Collection: Dating
I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.Collection: Birthday
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.Collection: Beauty
I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.Collection: War
Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.Collection: Moving
I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.Collection: Romantic
I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.Collection: Diet
Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.Collection: Car
Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.
When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb.
The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.
Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.
It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.
When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.
When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.
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.
We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.
Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.
Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.
Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.
Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.
There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.
The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.
The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.
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.
My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.
My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
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.
In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.
In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.
I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.
I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.
I was not cut out to be a rebel.
I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.
I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.
I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.
I used up every cent I earned as an actress.
I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.
I simply did not want my face to be my talent.
I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.
I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.
I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.
I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.
I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.
I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.