Gene Tierney

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past. ”

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

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

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

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title. ”

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

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings. ”

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older 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. ”

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