I was never an actress — none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.
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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Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.
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Sex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
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Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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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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The truth is that the only time I’m happy is when I’m doing absolutely nothing. I don’t understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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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’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 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 think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
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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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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 have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
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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 couldn’t imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
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I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
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