I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.
AVA GARDNERDeep down, I’m pretty superficial.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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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 hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
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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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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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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.
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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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Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
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Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
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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 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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When I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
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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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Fame gives you everything you never wanted.
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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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