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.
AVA GARDNERI have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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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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Fame gives you everything you never wanted.
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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
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I’ve certainly never taken the care of myself that I should have. On the contrary. I’ve done a lot of late nights without enough sleep and all that. But I’ve had fun. Whatever wrinkles are there, I’ve enjoyed getting them.
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I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
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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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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 was never an actress — none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.
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Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.
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I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.
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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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What I’d really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
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All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I’m through.
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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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Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.
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