Ava Gardner Quotes

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.
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.
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.
I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.
I did a lot of hokey movies when I was starting out at MGM. Good and bad, mostly bad.
I do owe Mickey one thing: he taught me how much I enjoyed sex.
I go on tremendous health kicks - exercise, yogurt, no booze. Of course, I smoke too much.
I hate journalists. I don't trust them.
I never played a woman who was smarter than me.
I think the most vulgar thing about Hollywood is the way it believes its own gossip.
I was born with good health and a strong body and spent years abusing them.
It's a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
It's a shame that it didn't work out with Mick. I was hopelessly in love with him.
It's fine being stared at as a pretty girl, but not as a freak. When I tried to make myself ugly, they said, 'Oh, she's lost her looks.'
Mama, you know, poor baby, she'd had her family all finished: four daughters and a couple of sons, and suddenly, I arrived in her midlife on Christmas Eve 1922.
Mickey - the smallest husband I ever had and the biggest mistake I ever made - well, that year, it was.
Nobody could pile on the applesauce like Mickey. He was the best liar in the world - well, Frank Sinatra can tell a good story, too, but I don't believe he was ever unfaithful to me.
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Ava Gardner
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24 December, 1922
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25 January, 1990
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