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 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.
AVA GARDNERWhen I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
AVA GARDNERSo this was where lust was satisfied. If I’d been an old-time miner I’d have asked for my gold nugget back.
AVA GARDNERPetting is the study of the anatomy in braille.
AVA GARDNERFame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
AVA GARDNERI 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.
AVA GARDNERWhat I’d really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
AVA GARDNERFame gives you everything you never wanted.
AVA GARDNERHollywood – 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.
AVA GARDNERI couldn’t imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
AVA GARDNERI hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
AVA GARDNERI 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 GARDNERSex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
AVA GARDNERI 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.
AVA GARDNERMaybe, 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 GARDNERI was never an actress — none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.
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