Top 67 Quotes by Gene Tierney

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

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.

I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.

There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.

I was not cut out to be a rebel.

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

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

Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

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