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.
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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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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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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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
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Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.
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I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
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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 think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
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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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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 was never an actress — none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.
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I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
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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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What I’d really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
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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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All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I’m through.
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