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.
AVA GARDNERI couldn’t imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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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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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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Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
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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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What I’d really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
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I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
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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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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’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 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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And the news got worse. It appeared that there was this whole other person Jesus Christ whose birthday a lot of people tended to confuse with mine. I was personally outraged. It was a long time before I forgave the Lord for that.
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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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