I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.
Gene Tierney
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.
When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb.
Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.
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.
I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.
Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.
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?
Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.
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 loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.
Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.
My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.
It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.
I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.
Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.
I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.
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.
I always tried to play my hunches.
Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.
Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.
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.
As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.
Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.
I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.
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.
I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.
I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.
For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.
I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.
Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.
I simply did not want my face to be my talent.
I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.
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.
There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.
I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.
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.
I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.
Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.
I used up every cent I earned as an actress.
The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.
In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.
I was not cut out to be a rebel.
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 hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.
My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.
