Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.
AVA GARDNERPetting is the study of the anatomy in braille.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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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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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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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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What I’d really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
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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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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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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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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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I was never an actress — none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.
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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 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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Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.
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I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.
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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
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