Ava Gardner Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Ava Gardner

  Respect, Song, Needs

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• I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.

  Ava Gardner

  Thinking, Reason, Wells

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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.

  Ava Gardner

  Love Is, Hollywood, Publicity

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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.

  Ava Gardner

  Running, Taken, Sleep

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Ava Gardner

  Sexy, Mistake, Thinking

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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.

  Ava Gardner

  Marriage, Thinking, Finals

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• Sex isn't all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.

  Ava Gardner

  Sex, When You Love Someone, Important

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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.

  Ava Gardner

  Scotch, Glasses, Hands

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• I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.

  Ava Gardner

  Sunrise, Hollywood, Actresses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.

  Ava Gardner

  Cheating, Hate, I Hate

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• I am deeply superficial.

  Ava Gardner

  Ego, Superficial

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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.

  Ava Gardner

  Night, Years, People

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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.

  Ava Gardner

  Lust, Gold, Nuggets

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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.

  Ava Gardner

  Makeup, Directors, Firsts

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• I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.

  Ava Gardner

  Inspirational, Motivational, Heart

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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.

  Ava Gardner

  Jesus, Long, People

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• I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.

  Ava Gardner

  Book, Writing, Jewels

  Peter Evans, Ava Gardner (2014). “Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.

  Ava Gardner

  Years, White, Twelve

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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.

  Ava Gardner

  Taken, Lazy, Acting

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• I was never an actress -- none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.

  Ava Gardner

  Kids, Looks, Actresses

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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.

  Ava Gardner

  Forgiving, Able, Frailty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He will always be my Sir Galahad.

  Ava Gardner

  Galahad

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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.

  Ava Gardner

  Husband, Years, Two

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• I couldn't imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.

  Ava Gardner

  Australia, World, Film

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