A biography for Gene Tierneyhasn’t been written yet.
“I used up every cent I earned as an actress.”
“Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.”
“Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.”
“Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.”
“In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.”
“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?”
“When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.”
“The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.”
“I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.”
“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.”
“I existed in a world that never is , a prison of the mind.”
“I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.”
“We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.”
“I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.”
“The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.”
“Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.”
“I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.”
“Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.”
“The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.”
“Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.”