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.
AVA GARDNERFame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
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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Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
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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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Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
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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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I have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
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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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Sex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
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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 hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
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When I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
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I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.
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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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I was never an actress — none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.
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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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