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I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.

Ava Gardner

Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
AVA GARDNER

Feeling Float Myself Perfection Warm Water
Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.
AVA GARDNER

Character Deep Myself
I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.
AVA GARDNER

Better Hell Learning Movie Myself Quite Respect Studio
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.
AVA GARDNER

Hard Husband Life Myself Suffering
Fame gives you everything you never wanted.
AVA GARDNER

Fame Material Money Yourself
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.
AVA GARDNER

Final Love Myself Thinking Understand
I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
AVA GARDNER

Cheating Hate Myself Relationship
Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
AVA GARDNER

Love One Liner Pain
I couldn’t imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
AVA GARDNER

End Imagination Movie Myself World
Sex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
AVA GARDNER

Important Love Relationship Sex Yourself
When I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
AVA GARDNER

Angry Lose Myself Place Temper Yourself
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 GARDNER

Age Alcohol Death Hands Live Myself Old Time
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.
AVA GARDNER

Care Enjoyment Enough Fun Myself Night Sleep
All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I’m through.
AVA GARDNER

Appearance Beautiful Myself
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.
AVA GARDNER

Bad Goodness Greatness Myself Night Remember Time
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.
AVA GARDNER

Angry Forgiveness Myself News Person Personal Time Worst

I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.

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I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.

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