Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner
Ava Gardnerwas an American actress, icon and singer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth24 December 1922
CitySmithfield, NC
CountryUnited States of America
hands directors tests
After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!”
ego superficial
I am deeply superficial.
galahad
He will always be my Sir Galahad.
retirement honey
For the loot, honey, for the loot.
sunrise hollywood actresses
I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood
running taken sleep
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
years white dollars
I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.
jesus people long
And the news got worse. It appeared that there was this whole other person Jesus Christ whose birthday a lot of people tended to confuse with mine. I was personally outraged. It was a long time before I forgave the Lord for that.
husband years two
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.
australia world film
I couldn't imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
cheating hate i-hate
I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.
perfect water doing-nothing
Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
giving fame wanted
Fame gives you everything you never wanted.
beautiful
Elizabeth Taylor is not beautiful, she is pretty—I was beautiful.