Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
AVA GARDNERDoing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.
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I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
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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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I have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
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I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.
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Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.
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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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I was never an actress — none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.
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Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
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Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
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All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I’m through.
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Oh, what the hell did I know? I went to the set the first day in full makeup and the director told me to take it off. So I did the film without makeup. I had nothing to do with anything I did. I never understood why I was so famous.
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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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So this was where lust was satisfied. If I’d been an old-time miner I’d have asked for my gold nugget back.
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