I was never an actress — none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.
AVA GARDNERFame gives you everything you never wanted.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.
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Sex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
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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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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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Women’s liberation as a movement makes some valid points. But in the final analysis, it doesn’t matter who wears the pants – as long as there’s money in the pockets.
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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 haven’t taken an overdose of sleeping pills and called my agent. I haven’t been in jail, and I don’t go running to the psychiatrist every two minutes. That’s something of an accomplishment these days.
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Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
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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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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
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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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Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
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I have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
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Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.
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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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