Ava Gardner Quotes
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Elizabeth Taylor is not beautiful, she is pretty—I was beautiful.
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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.
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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.
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What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.
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Our phone bills were astronomical, and when I found the letters Frank wrote me the other day, the total could fill a suitcase. Every single day during our relationship, no matter where in the world I was, I'd get a telegram from Frank saying he loved me and missed me. He was a man who was deseperate for companionship and love. Can you wonder that he always had mine!
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I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.
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I was never an actress -- none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.
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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.
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I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.
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Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.
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I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
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I haven't taken an overdose of sleeping pills and called my agent. I haven't been in jail, and I don't go running to the psychiatrist every two minutes. That's something of an accomplishment these days.
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I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
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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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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.
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After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!”
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All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I'm through.
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Love is nothing but a pain in the ass.
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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
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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.
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What I'd really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
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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.
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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.