I have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
AVA GARDNERI 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.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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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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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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I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
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I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.
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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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If I had my life to live over again, I’d live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I’ve enjoyed my life. I’ve had a hell of a good time.
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When I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
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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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What I’d really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
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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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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.
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Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.
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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.
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I couldn’t imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
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