Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl’s values.
AVA GARDNERLove is nothing but a pain in the ass.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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I have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
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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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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 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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I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
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Oh, what the hell did I know? I went to the set the first day in full makeup and the director told me to take it off. So I did the film without makeup. I had nothing to do with anything I did. I never understood why I was so famous.
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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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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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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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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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All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I’m through.
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When I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
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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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