Ava Gardner Quotes

I'm not who you think i am. If you love me, you love me for the wrong reasons.

Some couples divorce because of a misunderstandin g; others, because they understand each other too well.

There's probably some misunderstanding of who I am and how I roll.

But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.

Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point.

I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can see, people read it when they were half stoned and listening to the TV. Then they come back and say gee, it's impossible to figure out what's going on in a story.

I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

A mutual misunderstanding.

I think your girlfriends getting Jealous," Luce said, gesturing at the pair. "Which one?" He asked. "I didn't realise they were both your girlfriends." "Neither is my girlfriend. I meant, which one did you think was my girlfriend?

No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry.

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth.

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

Watching the news, there seems to be an empathy failure and miscommunication.

Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.

You’re here,” I continued. “At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you’ve hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys. Do you think we can go on like this forever?

People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment.