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.
AVA GARDNERWhen 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.
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 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 GARDNERSex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
AVA GARDNERWhen I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
AVA GARDNERSing 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.
AVA GARDNERI couldn’t imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
AVA GARDNERI was never an actress — none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.
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 GARDNERAlthough no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl’s values.
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 GARDNERIt’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
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.
AVA GARDNERI 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.
AVA GARDNERFame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
AVA GARDNERLove is nothing but a pain in the ass.
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