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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.

Ava Gardner

Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
AVA GARDNER

Fame Fortune Happiness Home Yourself
Fame gives you everything you never wanted.
AVA GARDNER

Fame Material Money Yourself
I have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
AVA GARDNER

Director Heart Himself Myself Rule Soul Trust
It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
AVA GARDNER

Believe Lust Pity Simplicity
Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl’s values.
AVA GARDNER

Believe Character Country Girl Myself Value Woman
I’ve certainly never taken the care of myself that I should have. On the contrary. I’ve done a lot of late nights without enough sleep and all that. But I’ve had fun. Whatever wrinkles are there, I’ve enjoyed getting them.
AVA GARDNER

Care Enjoyment Enough Fun Myself Night Sleep
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 GARDNER

Change Enjoyment Goodness Hell Life Live Myself Time Truth Way
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
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 think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
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Failure Love Marriage Myself Thinking Wisdom
Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.
AVA GARDNER

Animal Education Study
I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
AVA GARDNER

History Hollywood Myself Rise Sun
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
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
When I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
AVA GARDNER

Angry Lose Myself Place Temper Yourself
I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
AVA GARDNER

Cheating Hate Myself Relationship

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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