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
For the loot, honey, for the loot.
– Ava Gardner
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
What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.
– Ava Gardner
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
I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.