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 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.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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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 either write the book or sell the jewels. And I’m kinda sentimental about the jewels.
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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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I 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.
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When I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
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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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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.
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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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Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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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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All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I’m through.
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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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I 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.
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