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


Gene Tierney

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GENE WILDER The Pulitzer is a crapshoot. Your piece has to hit a few people the right way at the right moment.
GENE WEINGARTEN The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That&#...
GENE SIMMONS No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're cle...
GENE RODDENBERRY I remember myself as an asthmatic child, having great difficulties at 7, 8 and 9 years old, falling ...
GENE RODDENBERRY When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the ma...
GENE KELLY What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but t...
GENE WILDER I hope my fans remember my name is Gene Vincent and not Gene Autry.
GENE VINCENT You have to bear in mind that Mr. Autry's favorite horse was named Champion. He ain't ever h...
GENE MAUCH I do not like assassins, or men of low character.
GENE HACKMAN In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches,...
GENE TUNNEY I'm not a natural writer like, let's say - I'm not talking about Arthur Miller; that'...
GENE WILDER If you're the greatest, it's okay to say you're the greatest. My suggestion to everybody...
GENE SIMMONS Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well ...
GENE SIMMONS It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I&#...
GENE HACKMAN But by virtue of our baptism, Peter Akinola and I are brothers in Christ and one day we are going to...
GENE ROBINSON What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
GENE FOWLER The thing I always liked best about touring abroad was constantly running into different people, dif...
GENE PITNEY Instead of saying we need to outlaw certain types of weapons, we need to find better ways to enforce...
GENE GREEN