I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
AVA GARDNERBecause 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.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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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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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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Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl’s values.
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All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I’m through.
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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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Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.
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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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Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
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I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.
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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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Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
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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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Fame gives you everything you never wanted.
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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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