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

Tierney’s line frames “intensity” as her defining mode of living: she did not compartmentalize work, domestic life, or love affairs, but invested each with the same concentrated emotional and moral energy. Read this way, the quote suggests both a strength (commitment, seriousness, high standards) and a vulnerability (burnout, volatility, or the tendency for personal and professional spheres to amplify one another). Coming from a figure whose public image was often controlled by studios and gossip, it also functions as a self-authored corrective: she claims an inner continuity across roles—employee, spouse/parent, lover—rather than letting any one identity explain her life.