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I learned that carrying on while you're broken is not the answer. I tried to work harder and harder, thinking that work would cure everything. All it did was make things worse.

— Gene Tierney Self-portrait (1979)

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

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

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Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need still to be useful, even though the parts get fewer.

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As long as I was playing someone else, I was fine. When I had to be myself, my problems began.

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I traveled in a world that once was—Hollywood of the war and immediate postwar years. And I existed in a world that never is—the prison of the mind. If what I have learned from these experiences can be summed up in one sentence, it would be this: life is not a movie. But I do not make that point in a sad or regretful way. I can only wonder, if my life had been a movie, would a director have cast Gene Tierney to play the part? The bitter with the sweet makes for a better part.

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