Don't think for a minute that bad publicity and endless criticism don't leave their claw marks on everyone concerned. Your friends try to cheer you up by saying lightly, "I suppose you get used to it, and ignore it." You… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
It's a shame that it didn't work out with Mick. I was hopelessly in love with him. — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
“Then, aided by the booze, like a fool I tossed off one of those throwaway lines that would have been better thrown away. "Ah,… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
I was born with good health and a strong body and spent years abusing them. — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels. — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
Mickey - the smallest husband I ever had and the biggest mistake I ever made - well, that year, it was. — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
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. — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
Our phone bills were astronomical, and when I found the letters Frank wrote me the other day, the total could fill a suitcase. Every… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
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.… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!” — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
Don't think for a minute that bad publicity and endless criticism don't leave their claw marks on everyone concerned. Your friends try to cheer… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
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… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
“In one scene, when I was supposed to say, "In a pig's eye you are," what came out was, "In a pig's ass you… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
