I don’t mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I’ll go– cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.
AVA GARDNERDeep down, I’m pretty superficial.
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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Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl’s values.
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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
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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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Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.
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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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I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
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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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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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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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I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.
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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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Sex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
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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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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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