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 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 have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
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Hollywood – 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.
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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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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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What I’d really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
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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.
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Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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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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Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
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When I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
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All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I’m through.
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I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
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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.
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