Tierney Quotes

#1. I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.

Natalie Dormer

#2. I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.

Daniel Okrent

#3. The more she stared, the happier his dick was to swell with pride, doing a stellar flagpole imitation.
About a year later, Tierney dragged her gaze away from his groin and looked him in the eye. This is why I was against casual Thursdays. There's always that one person who takes it too far.

Lorelei James

#4. They wanted her for the same reason as the studios: her stellar beauty; and just as she did for the studios, she morphed and mutated and recomposed this beauty into the precise form of their desires, until there was nothing of her left. [On Gene Tierney]

Paul Murray

#5. My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge.

Terence Stamp

#6. No one but Gene Tierney could have played 'Laura.' There was no other actress around with her particular combination of beauty, breeding, and mystery.

Vincent Price

#7. You are the only thing I've ever needed. The only treasure that matters.
- Seamus Tierney

Libby Bishop

#8. For some reason, the movies in the '40s have the best personalities: Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, and all those people. For some reason, I seem to gravitate more toward the '40s, and I don't necessarily know why. I just love the people.

Robert Osborne

#9. James Joyce once called Guinness stout "the wine of Ireland." Indeed it's one of the most successful beers worldwide. Ten million glasses of this ambrosial liquid are consumed with great gusto each day.

Rashers Tierney

#10. I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.

Gene Tierney

#11. The typical Irish peasant ate about 10 pounds of potatoes each day and soon towered in physical size over their rural English equivalents who mainly ate bread.

Rashers Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

#13. Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot.

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

#15. In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy.

Maura Tierney

#16. Scarlett O'Hara's father, Thomas, is an Irish immigrant who names his plantation Tara, after the home of the High Kings in Ireland. In an appealing nod to the "luck of the Irish," we read that Thomas O'Hara won his lands in a card game!

Rashers Tierney

#17. The zodiac's twelve signs are said to represent powerful archetypes that are universal in theme.

Bil Tierney

#18. I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

Gene Tierney

#19. We cannot continue to ask the brave men and women of our Armed Forces to put their lives on the line to protect our country while we jeopardize their safety by failing to ensure that Defense Department funds are not siphoned off to warlords in Afghanistan.

John F. Tierney

#20. To be certain you're consuming the real deal, look carefully at the label. W-h-i-s-k-e-y indicates the heavenly liquid from the Emerald Isle. Without the "e," it's from Scotland or some other godforsaken place.

Rashers Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

#22. The original Guinness Brewery in Dublin has a 9,000-year lease on its property at a perpetual rate of 45 pounds per year--one of the best bargains in Irish commercial history!

Rashers Tierney

#23. I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

Gene Tierney

#24. My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.

Gene Tierney

#25. On education, in order to ensure that America remains a world leader, we must create an educated, skilled workforce in the vital areas of science, math, engineering and information technology. At the same time, we must give every student access to a college degree.

John F. Tierney

#26. I existed in a world that never is , a prison of the mind.

Gene Tierney

#27. I was not cut out to be a rebel.

Gene Tierney

#28. The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.

Gene Tierney

#29. 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.

Gene Tierney

#30. I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

Gene Tierney

#31. A flame burns brightest just before it goes out.

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

#33. My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.

Gene Tierney

#34. Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.

Gene Tierney

#35. I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

Gene Tierney

#36. You can't just take care of everybody else all the time.

Maura Tierney

#37. I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.

Maura Tierney

#38. I just fell in love with the integrity of the music & that was it.

Tierney Sutton

#39. As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.

Gene Tierney

#40. She's another Deanna Durbin,' [Harry] Cohn said, 'except that she can't sing.

Gene Tierney

#41. We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

Gene Tierney

#42. 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.

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

#44. Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

Gene Tierney

#45. I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.

Gene Tierney

#46. Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.

Lawrence Tierney

#47. I always tried to play my hunches.

Gene Tierney

#48. I don't like gambling very much. I don't like being at the mercy of those little white squares that roll around and decide whether you win or lose. I like to have the say-so myself.

Lawrence Tierney

#49. I have so many insecurities they fight for prominence.

Maura Tierney

#50. I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.

Gene Tierney

#51. I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

Maura Tierney

#52. The Irish way of telling a story is a complex and elaborate one, complete with wild exaggerations, a certain delight in improbable fantasy, and a heightened sense of drama.

Rashers Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

#54. In 1903, Sir James Power, Lord Mayor of Dublin, was surprised to note on a transatlantic trip that the typical Irish immigrant in America was now "not merely a hewer of wood and a drawer of water." In fact, he remarked that they are "found occupying...respectable positions in society.

Rashers Tierney

#55. 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.

Gene Tierney

#56. I wish I had a little more joy of cooking - because mostly I have anxiety of cooking. I'm so proud when things come out well.

Maura Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

#58. Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.

Gene Tierney

#59. When I was going through my cancer treatment, I learned that you can never ask a stupid question. I asked every single question that came to my mind, and I believe that helped to calm my own anxiety.

Maura Tierney

#60. I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.

Gene Tierney

#61. I remember just how afraid I was. I was just as much afraid of the treatment as the diagnosis. So I thought I could talk about it in an authentic way.

Maura Tierney

#62. When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb.

Gene Tierney

#63. We Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.

Gene Tierney

#64. With our gift for language and willingness to stand up and be counted, as well as heaps of charm and charisma, we Irish have long been an integral part of American political life.

Rashers Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

#68. Where's my food? When is it coming? What did I order, anyway?

Lawrence Tierney

#69. One thing I knew for sure, it was gonna suck (hahahahaha, I know, wicked funny).

Kathleen Tierney

#70. Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.

Gene Tierney

#71. Everyone that ever met me has been in love with me.

Lawrence Tierney

#72. Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

Gene Tierney

#73. 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.

Gene Tierney

#74. Like so many things in life, a well-poured pint of Guinness is worth waiting for.

Rashers Tierney

#75. Instead of trying to find a path to follow, today's most successful professionals seek to acquire the right skills to set themselves up for advancement.

Terri Tierney Clark

#76. The illicit Irish homemade spirit, poitin was frowned upon by the Catholic Church, which made its manufacture grave enough of a sin to require a bishop's absolution rather than that of the regular parish priest. Ah, the lengths the Irish will go to for "the demon drink!

Rashers Tierney

#77. Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

Gene Tierney

#78. I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

Gene Tierney

#79. It saw me, dropped Lily, and lunged. I screamed and
tried to crawl away. Actually, I scream a lot. I'm a pretty good screamer.

Kathleen Tierney

#80. Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder.

Tierney Gearon

#81. He told me I was breathtaking. He told me I was brave. He told me I was his.

Sibylla Matilde

#82. I'll fight for you, even if it means fighting you for you.

Sibylla Matilde

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

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

#85. I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

Gene Tierney

#86. I used up every cent I earned as an actress.

Gene Tierney

#87. I love Martin Amis.

Maura Tierney

#88. Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

Gene Tierney

#89. The Best of Pointless Conversations

Scott Tierney

#90. Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

Gene Tierney

#91. Where there is hope, there is no despair.

Gene Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

#93. Whether serving in the military, building industry, organizing politically, or making their way in any other part of American culture, the Irish were determined to create a free and prosperous life for themselves. This Irish-American struggle led to social and political progress for all Americans.

Rashers Tierney

#94. Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

Gene Tierney

#95. I swear to God, if you do not put Mom on the line I'm going to choke you in your sleep." "With your bare hands or your pretentious infinity scarf?" Rell joked.

Raine O'Tierney

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

Gene Tierney

#97. 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.

Gene Tierney

#98. I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.

Gene Tierney

#99. I don't have much patience with sick people.

Maura Tierney

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

Gene Tierney