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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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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I have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
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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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I was never an actress — none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.
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Sex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
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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 wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.
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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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Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.
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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 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 couldn’t imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
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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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Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
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I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
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