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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Sex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
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Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.
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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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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 think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
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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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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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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
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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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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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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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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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