"All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I'm through."

-- Ava Gardner

“Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.”
“What a joy it is that the road ahead is an uphill climb. For where it leads is all the way to the top.”
“I want to make sure I'm with a girl that's a good kisser, and that when I wake up, I have coffee and a cigarette. That's all I really want out of life. That, and world domination.”

Source : Rolling Stone interview, February 14, 2002.
“What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.”
“The peasant of early modern France inhabited a world of step-mothers and orphans, of inexorable, unending toil, and of brutal emotions, both raw and repressed.The human condition has changed so much since then that we can hardly imagine the way it appeared to people whose lives really were nasty, brutish, and short. This is why we need to reread Mother Goose.”
“It always bothers me to see people writing RIP when a person dies. It just feels soÂ insincereÂ and like a cop out. To me, RIP is the microwave dinner of posthumous honours.”
“Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff in his voyage through life; commonplaces are the bread in his bag and the wine in his jug.”
“I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.”

Source : "The Midas touch". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2009.

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