All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I’m through.
AVA GARDNERDeep down, I’m pretty superficial.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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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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If I had my life to live over again, I’d live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I’ve enjoyed my life. I’ve had a hell of a good time.
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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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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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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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Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.
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Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
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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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Fame gives you everything you never wanted.
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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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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 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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