What I’d really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
AVA GARDNERWhen I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.
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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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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.
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I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
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Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
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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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I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.
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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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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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Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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Sex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
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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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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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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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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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