When I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
AVA GARDNERThe 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.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
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Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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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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I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I’m kinda sentimental about the jewels.
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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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Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
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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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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
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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 couldn’t imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
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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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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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Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
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All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I’m through.
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