I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it … - Ava Gardner

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Somewhere there's a someone for me. Though I may be lonely now, I'll see it through somehow, to somebody's heart I know I hold the key.

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.

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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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Fame gives you everything you never wanted.

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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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Don't think for a minute that bad publicity and endless criticism don't leave their claw marks on everyone concerned. Your friends try to cheer you up by saying lightly, "I suppose you get used to it, and ignore it. " You try. You try damned hard. But you never get used to it. It always wounds and hurts.

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