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Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.

Gene Tierney

Life

Tides

Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.

Gene Tierney

Men

Doubt

It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.

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.

Gene Tierney

Disease

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.

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

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

Gene Tierney

Years

I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.

Gene Tierney

Mother

Talk

Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.

Gene Tierney

People

Children

I always tried to play my hunches.

Gene Tierney

Play

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

Gene Tierney

Career

As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.

Gene Tierney

Emotion

Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.

Gene Tierney

Money

Sons