Top 67 Quotes by Gene Tierney

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

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

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

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

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

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

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.

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.

For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.