Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
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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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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Sex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
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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’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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I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
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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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When I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
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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 hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
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I have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
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Fame gives you everything you never wanted.
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Sing me not a song; let me hear your recital of veneration and respect; this I will listen to over and over when I share your need of pleasing.
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Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.
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