Gene Tierney

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

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

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

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

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941. ”

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. ”

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