Fame Quotes by Ava Gardner

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

— Ava Gardner

“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

“Great idea," I said. "Call the police. Call the fucking police.”

— Ava Gardner

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

— Ava Gardner

Elizabeth Taylor is not beautiful, she is pretty—I was beautiful.

— Ava Gardner

I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.

— Ava Gardner

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

— Ava Gardner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Ava Gardner

“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