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 GARDNERI hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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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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I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
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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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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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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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I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I’m kinda sentimental about the jewels.
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What I’d really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
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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.
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I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
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Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.
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I have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
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Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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Fame gives you everything you never wanted.
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Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn’t have been more wrong.
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