If I had my life to live over again, I’d live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I’ve enjoyed my life. I’ve had a hell of a good time.
AVA GARDNERI have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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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.
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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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Fame gives you everything you never wanted.
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I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
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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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Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl’s values.
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When I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
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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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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 have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
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Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.
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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 couldn’t imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
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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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Sex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
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