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What I’d really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.

Ava Gardner

I was never an actress — none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.
AVA GARDNER

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

Fame Fortune Happiness Home Yourself
I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
AVA GARDNER

History Hollywood Myself Rise Sun
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.
AVA GARDNER

Bad Goodness Greatness Myself Night Remember Time
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.
AVA GARDNER

Listening Myself Need Respect Share Sing Song
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
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
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.
AVA GARDNER

Day Director Fame Famous Hell Make Up Movie Myself
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.
AVA GARDNER

Freedom Liberty Money Movement Valid Woman
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.
AVA GARDNER

Angry Forgiveness Myself News Person Personal Time Worst
I couldn’t imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
AVA GARDNER

End Imagination Movie Myself World
I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I’m kinda sentimental about the jewels.
AVA GARDNER

Book Emotion Jewel Myself Writing
Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
AVA GARDNER

Love One Liner Pain
Fame gives you everything you never wanted.
AVA GARDNER

Fame Material Money Yourself
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
I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.
AVA GARDNER

Money Myself Reason Time

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