Fame gives you everything you never wanted.
AVA GARDNERSo this was where lust was satisfied. If I’d been an old-time miner I’d have asked for my gold nugget back.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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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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I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
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I have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
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All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I’m through.
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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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I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.
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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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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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Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.
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When I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
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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 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 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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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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Sex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
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