Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
AVA GARDNERSing 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.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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When I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
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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’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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Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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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 hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
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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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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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Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.
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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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Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
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God knows I’ve got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don’t.
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I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
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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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