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.
AVA GARDNERWhen I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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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 have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
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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 couldn’t imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
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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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Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl’s values.
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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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Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
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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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I’ve certainly never taken the care of myself that I should have. On the contrary. I’ve done a lot of late nights without enough sleep and all that. But I’ve had fun. Whatever wrinkles are there, I’ve enjoyed getting them.
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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
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All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I’m through.
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Sex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
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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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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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