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.
AVA GARDNERI either write the book or sell the jewels. And I’m kinda sentimental about the jewels.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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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.
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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 either write the book or sell the jewels. And I’m kinda sentimental about the jewels.
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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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All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I’m through.
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Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
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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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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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When I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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What I’d really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
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Sex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
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Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.
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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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I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.
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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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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
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I’ve certainly never taken the care of myself that I should have. On the contrary. I’ve done a lot of late nights without enough sleep and all that. But I’ve had fun. Whatever wrinkles are there, I’ve enjoyed getting them.
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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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Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
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