Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl’s values.
AVA GARDNERGod knows I’ve got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don’t.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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So this was where lust was satisfied. If I’d been an old-time miner I’d have asked for my gold nugget back.
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Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.
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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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I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I’m kinda sentimental about the jewels.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
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I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
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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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