Gene Tierney

“Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.”

“I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.”

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

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

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

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

“Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.”

“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?”

“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.”

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

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

“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 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.”