Gene Tierney

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

“Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems.”

“I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.”

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

“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 had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.”

“I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.”

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

“I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.”

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

“In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.”

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

“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.”

“I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.”

“Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.”

“Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.”

“I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.”

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

“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.”

“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.”