So this was where lust was satisfied. If I’d been an old-time miner I’d have asked for my gold nugget back.
AVA GARDNERSo this was where lust was satisfied. If I’d been an old-time miner I’d have asked for my gold nugget back.
AVA GARDNERI do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.
AVA GARDNERI think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
AVA GARDNERI 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 GARDNERAnd 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 GARDNERFame gives you everything you never wanted.
AVA GARDNERI 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 GARDNERWhat I’d really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
AVA GARDNERI 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 GARDNERMaybe, 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 GARDNERI couldn’t imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
AVA GARDNERAll I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I’m through.
AVA GARDNERI 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.
AVA GARDNERSex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
AVA GARDNERWomen’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.
AVA GARDNERI hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
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