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What I'd really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
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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I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.
Ava Gardner
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.
Ava Gardner
I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
Ava Gardner
I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.
Ava Gardner
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
Ava Gardner
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.
Ava Gardner
After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!”
Ava Gardner
I am deeply superficial.
Ava Gardner
When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place.
Ava Gardner
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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I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
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I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
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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
All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I'm through.
Ava Gardner
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
Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.
Ava Gardner
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
It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
Ava Gardner
Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl's values
Ava Gardner
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 Gardner
