I couldn’t imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
AVA GARDNERFame gives you everything you never wanted.
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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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 and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
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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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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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What I’d really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
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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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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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I’ve certainly never taken the care of myself that I should have. On the contrary. I’ve done a lot of late nights without enough sleep and all that. But I’ve had fun. Whatever wrinkles are there, I’ve enjoyed getting them.
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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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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
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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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Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.
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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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I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
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