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 GARDNERI couldn’t imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I’m through.
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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.
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Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
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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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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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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.
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Sing 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.
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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.
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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
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I have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
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I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
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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 couldn’t imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
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Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.
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