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Gene Tierney Biography

Gene Eliza Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as a great beauty, she became established as a leading lady. Tierney was best known for her portrayal of the title character in the film Laura (1944), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Ellen Berent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven (1945).

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Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

Behavior, Eccentric, Movie, Movie Sets, Noticed, Routinely

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

Addiction, Admire, Rids

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

Actresses, Job, Jobs, Seemed, Title, Titles

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

Adore, Doubt, Give, Giving, Men, Wonderful

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

Change, Crash, Howard, Hughes, Plane, Planes

that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

Character, Melting, Pride, Suspicion

Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.

Bed, Failure, Movie, Take, Walk

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

Faults, Jealousy, Parties, Party, Think, Thinking

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

Annoyed, Father, Felt, Luck, Used

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

Craved, Fattening, Foods, Years

A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

Careless, Picks, Romantic, Rose, Thinking

there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

Fail, Failing, Failure, Recognize, Success, Way

Where there is hope, there is no despair.

Despair, Hope, There Is Hope

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

Arabian, Careers, Cast, Chinese, Girl

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

Judgment, Question, Studio, Studios, Years

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

Able, Cope, Future, Past, Rediscovery, Unless

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

Decorator, House, Houses, Interior, Passion, Should Have

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

Birth, Cause, Daughter, Feelings, Inability, Mother

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

Careers, Earnest, Impatient, Serious, Sometimes

Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.

Century, Foxes, Future, Girl, Joe, Top

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