Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner

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

Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner

I never played a woman who was smarter than me.

Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner

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

Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner

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

Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner

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

Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner

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

Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner

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

Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner

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

Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner

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

Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner

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

Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner

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

Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner

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
Ava Gardner

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.

Ava Gardner
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
Ava Gardner

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

Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner

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

Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner

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

Ava Gardner
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
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.