16 Quotes By Gene Tierney


Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
Gene Tierney on beauty

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.
Gene Tierney on best

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

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
Gene Tierney on change

I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.
Gene Tierney on diet

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.
Gene Tierney on family

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

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

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?
Gene Tierney on home

I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.
Gene Tierney on home

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
Gene Tierney on jealousy

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.
Gene Tierney on movingon

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

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.
Gene Tierney on war

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.
Gene Tierney on war

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.
Gene Tierney on women