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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
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Ava Gardner
Age: 67 †
Born: 1922
Born: December 24
Died: 1990
Died: January 25
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Ava Lavinia Gardner
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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 was never an actress -- none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.
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All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I'm through.
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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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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
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Love is nothing but a pain in the ass
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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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Sex isn't all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
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I am deeply superficial.
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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.
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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
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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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