Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.
AVA GARDNERWhen I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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God knows I’ve got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don’t.
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Women’s liberation as a movement makes some valid points. But in the final analysis, it doesn’t matter who wears the pants – as long as there’s money in the pockets.
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Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn’t and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don’t think they understood me.
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What I’d really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
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Sing me not a song; let me hear your recital of veneration and respect; this I will listen to over and over when I share your need of pleasing.
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All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I’m through.
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I couldn’t imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
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I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
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Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn’t have been more wrong.
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I haven’t taken an overdose of sleeping pills and called my agent. I haven’t been in jail, and I don’t go running to the psychiatrist every two minutes. That’s something of an accomplishment these days.
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I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.
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I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I’m kinda sentimental about the jewels.
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I have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
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I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
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I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.
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