Ava Gardner Quotes

Help/FAQ
Actors > Ava Gardner > Ava Gardner Quotes

EasyEdit
(What's this?) What is the EasyEdit button? This website gets better when people like you add to it. Just click the EasyEdit button to start. (help)

The Quotable Ava Gardner
Replace this image with an actor photo
 Do you hang on Ava Gardner's every word?
Click the EasyEdit button to add your favorite quotes to these sections below:
  • Most famous lines
  • Personal quotes about career and life
  • Hearsay: quotes by others
Ava Gardner's Famous Lines
Replace this image with a character photoMovie/TV title:
Character name:
Quote(s):
Replace this image with a character photoMovie/TV title:
Character name:
Quote(s):
Replace this image with a character photoMovie/TV title:
Character name:
Quote(s):
Replace this image with a character photoMovie/TV title:
Character name:
Quote(s):
Replace this image with a character photoMovie/TV title:
Character name:
Quote(s):

Ava Gardner Quotes
Help construct the ultimate crib sheet of quotes about career, costars, the Hollywood fame game, and more! Add an attribution, when possible.

  • "Deep down, I am pretty superficial."

  • "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 don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddam duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect."

  • "Some people say Liz (Elizabeth Taylor) and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocrittically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men.

  • "For the loot, honey, for the loot." (In 1985, on why she came out of retirement to appear in a prime time soap opera.)
  • "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 las until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two."
  • "After my screen test, the director clapped is hands gleefully and yelled: She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!
  • "I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul."
  • "Maybe I just didn'thave the temperament for stardom. I'll never forget seeing Bette Davis at the Hilton in Madrid. I went up to her and said "Miss Davis, i'm Ava Gardner and I'm a great fan of yours. And do you know, she behaved exactly as I wanted her to behave. "Of course you are my dear" she said. "Of course you are" and she swept on. Now that's a star."

Quotes About Ava Gardner
Quote: "Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woma in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addresed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. She looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl"

Who said/wrote it: Sharon Stone



Quote:"I love her, and God damn me for it"

Who said/wrote it: Frank Sinatra



Quote:"One of the most generous and warmhearted of people."

Who said/wrote it: Anthony Andrews



Quote: "Today marked the worst behavior I've yet seen from that curious breed I make opposite. Ava showed up for a late call, did one shot (with the usual increadible delay in coming to the set), and the walked off just before lunch when some Chinese extra took a still of her. She came back after a painful three hour lunch break only to walk off, for the same reason.

Who said/wrote it: Charlton Heston



Quote: "I'd like very much to be Ava gardner. She is sex."

Who said/wrote it: Barbara Parkins





Last update: Mar 27 2009, 12:15 AM EDT by ed (content history | content tools) (help)
Keyword tags: Ava Gardner Ava Gardner Quotes quotes by Ava Gardner