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About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient. (Gene Tierney)
Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew. View quote
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I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed. View quote
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I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions. View quote
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I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother. View quote
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The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios. View quote
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I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging. View quote
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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. View quote
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I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act. View quote
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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. View quote
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Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit. (Gene Tierney)
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. View quote
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I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none. View quote
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Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen. View quote
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I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress. View quote
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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. View quote
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Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese. View quote
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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)
The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941. View quote
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It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors. View quote
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I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man. View quote
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Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie. View quote
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