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.
AVA GARDNERWhen I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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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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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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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 must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
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All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I’m through.
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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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Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
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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 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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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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Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl’s values.
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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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I was never an actress — none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.
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