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

Gene Tierney

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

Gene Tierney

Behavior

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

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

Gene Tierney

Actors

Sense

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

Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

Gene Tierney

Addiction

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

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb.

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

Gene Tierney

Career

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

Gene Tierney

Dream

Man

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.

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

Gene Tierney

Life