Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
AVA GARDNERAlthough no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl’s values.
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 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 think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
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I have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
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Sex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
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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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All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I’m through.
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I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
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Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.
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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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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
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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 either write the book or sell the jewels. And I’m kinda sentimental about the jewels.
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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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When I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
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