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.
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 do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.
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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 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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I was never an actress — none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.
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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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Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.
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Sex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
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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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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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I couldn’t imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
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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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Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
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Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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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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Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl’s values.
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