I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
AVA GARDNERFame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
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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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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 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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Sex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
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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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All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I’m through.
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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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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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When I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
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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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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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