When I’m old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.
AVA GARDNERI’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.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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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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Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
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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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I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
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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 don’t mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I’ll go– cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.
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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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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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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
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I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.
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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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Sex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
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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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I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
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I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
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