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.
AVA GARDNERFame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
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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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Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.
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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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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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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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Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.
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Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
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All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I’m through.
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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 have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
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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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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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