Top 67 Quotes by Gene Tierney

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

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

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

I simply did not want my face to be my talent.

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

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.

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

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