I have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
AVA GARDNERI 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.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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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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All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I’m through.
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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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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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Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.
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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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Fame gives you everything you never wanted.
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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 must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
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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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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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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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Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl’s values.
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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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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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