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I have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.

Ava Gardner

What I’d really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
AVA GARDNER

Fame Myself Stardom
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.
AVA GARDNER

Feeling Myself People Perfection Talk Time Truth Understand
I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
AVA GARDNER

Cheating Hate Myself Relationship
I 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 GARDNER

Accomplishment Myself Prison Sleep
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.
AVA GARDNER

Better Hell Learning Movie Myself Quite Respect Studio
Oh, what the hell did I know? I went to the set the first day in full makeup and the director told me to take it off. So I did the film without makeup. I had nothing to do with anything I did. I never understood why I was so famous.
AVA GARDNER

Day Director Fame Famous Hell Make Up Movie Myself
Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
AVA GARDNER

Fame Fortune Happiness Home Yourself
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.
AVA GARDNER

Final Love Myself Thinking Understand
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.
AVA GARDNER

Mistake Myself People Play Thinking Wrong
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.
AVA GARDNER

Bad Goodness Greatness Myself Night Remember Time
Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.
AVA GARDNER

Character Deep Myself
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 GARDNER

Gold Lust Myself Old Satisfaction Time
Sex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
AVA GARDNER

Important Love Relationship Sex Yourself
And 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 GARDNER

Angry Forgiveness Myself News Person Personal Time Worst
I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
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History Hollywood Myself Rise Sun
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 GARDNER

Cook Goodness Gray Home Kitchen Music Old Sea Wonderful

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