What I’d really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
AVA GARDNERSex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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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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Fame gives you everything you never wanted.
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I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.
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So this was where lust was satisfied. If I’d been an old-time miner I’d have asked for my gold nugget back.
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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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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 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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Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl’s values.
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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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God knows I’ve got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don’t.
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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 have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
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Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
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