Ava Gardner Quotes
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.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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Soviet expansionism in Europe, the battle for control of China, and the 1950 invasion of South Korea would shatter once-euphoric dreams of post-war cooperation with the Kremlin.
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A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life.
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I was always singing as a kid. That's honestly all I've ever wanted to do.
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I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.
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The corporations are shoving just the worst music down everybody's throats, and I think the result of that is that nobody has any taste. They have no bar as to what is good.
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I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.
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I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
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I think Michael Moore is a hero.
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I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic.
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Love is such a confusing word. You think I'm joking but I'm not.
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Here in America we so are for family values, yet insurance companies do not cover all fertility procedures.
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Any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man.
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When men give lines, women learn to not trust men. When women wear makeup, men learn to not trust women. Male lines and female makeup are divorce training.
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Remember I came to Albuquerque to do a hair and makeup test and wardrobe fitting; you guys were already shooting. It's tough when the movie's already started and you kind of show up. You're the new kid on the block. I walked onto the set and Tommy Lee Jones was about to do the scene. I just kind of walked up to him. I was shaking, but I just gave him this big hug and he just had nothing to say. He was like, 'Gotta go to work now.' I had a great time working with him."
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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.
