Top 67 Quotes by Gene Tierney

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

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

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

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.

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.

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

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.

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.