What I’d really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
AVA GARDNERWhen I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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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 want to remember it all, the good times and the bad times, the late nights, the boozing, the dancing into dawns, and all the great and not-so-great people I met and loved in those years.
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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
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Sex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
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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 hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
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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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Hollywood – that’s a place where love is viewed both pragmatically and philosophically in the saying, ‘Tis better to have loved and divorced than never to have had any publicity at all.
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The truth is that the only time I’m happy is when I’m doing absolutely nothing. I don’t understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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I have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
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When I’m old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.
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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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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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Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
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Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl’s values.
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