Ava Gardner Quotes

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Ava Gardner

Profession : Actress

Birth : December 24, 1922

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.

Ava Gardner

It's a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.

Ava Gardner

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

Ava Gardner

I never played a woman who was smarter than me.

Ava Gardner

I think the most vulgar thing about Hollywood is the way it believes its own gossip.

Ava Gardner

When you get to be my age, baby, you have to pay time more respect.

Ava Gardner

To be possessed when you are a child is just a wonderful feeling. It makes you feel safe. It makes you feel loved. But later if anyone tried to possess me - oh boy, I was out of there.

Ava Gardner

I fell down in Hyde Park with a friend who'd had a hip operation, and neither of us could get up again. People must have thought we were a couple of drunks rolling around and walked on by.

Ava Gardner

I go on tremendous health kicks - exercise, yogurt, no booze. Of course, I smoke too much.

Ava Gardner

I did a lot of hokey movies when I was starting out at MGM. Good and bad, mostly bad.

Ava Gardner

What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.

Ava Gardner

I was born with good health and a strong body and spent years abusing them.

Ava Gardner

It's a shame that it didn't work out with Mick. I was hopelessly in love with him.

Ava Gardner

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.

Ava Gardner

Mickey - the smallest husband I ever had and the biggest mistake I ever made - well, that year, it was.

Ava Gardner

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.'

Ava Gardner

I do owe Mickey one thing: he taught me how much I enjoyed sex.

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The marriages to Mickey and Artie were easy come, easy go. I called them my 'starter husbands!'

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There was no way the marriages could have survived. Nor do I regret that they didn't.

Ava Gardner

I'm not saying my own looks don't give the game away. Nothing I can do about that anymore. A nip and tuck ain't gonna do it.

Ava Gardner