I don’t mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I’ll go– cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.
AVA GARDNERI think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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Sex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
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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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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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Fame gives you everything you never wanted.
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And the news got worse. It appeared that there was this whole other person Jesus Christ whose birthday a lot of people tended to confuse with mine. I was personally outraged. It was a long time before I forgave the Lord for that.
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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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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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I was never an actress — none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.
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Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
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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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I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.
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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 must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
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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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