The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.
— Gene Tierney
The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.
Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.
We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.
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.
Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.
The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
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.
Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb.
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.
Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.
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.
When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.
