Ava Gardner Quotes

"I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely."
- Ava Gardner
(Related: Reason)

"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."
- Ava Gardner
(Related: Marriage, Life, End, Husbands)

"I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul."
- Ava Gardner
(Related: Trust, Soul, Heart, Acting)

"I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect."
- Ava Gardner
(Related: Work, People, Duty, Nothing, Talk, Water)

"Deep down, I'm pretty superficial."
- Ava Gardner
(Related: Deep, Pretty)

"Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong."
- Ava Gardner
(Related: Mistake, People, Thinking, Wrong)