Ava Gardner Quotes - Page 2

I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.

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

Hollywood - that's a place where love is viewed both pragmatically and philosophically in the saying, 'Tis better to have loved and divorced than never to have had any publicity at all.

Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.

I am deeply superficial.

I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.

I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.

I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.

For the loot, honey, for the loot.

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.

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.

I want to remember it all, the good times and the bad times, the late nights, the boozing, the dancing into dawns, and all the great and not-so-great people I met and loved in those years.

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.

I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.

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.

So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.

I was never an actress -- none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.

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.

He will always be my Sir Galahad.

God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.

And the news got worse. It appeared that there was this whole other person Jesus Christ whose birthday a lot of people tended to confuse with mine. I was personally outraged. It was a long time before I forgave the Lord for that.

I couldn't imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.