Quotes by Ava Gardner

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!”

Directors

Hands

Tests

Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl’s values

Believe

Country

Girl

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.

Jesus

Long

People

Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

Doing Nothing

Perfect

Water

Fame gives you everything you never wanted.

Fame

Giving

Wanted

He will always be my Sir Galahad.

Galahad

Hollywood – that’s a place where love is viewed both pragmatically and philosophically in the saying, ‘Tis better to have loved and divorced than never to have had any publicity at all.

Hollywood

Love Is

Publicity

I couldn’t imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.

Australia

Film

World

I dealt with men who had tempers, and who could get violent-Lord knows how I had to defend myself against Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra, and from Artie Shaw’s verbal abuse. But George [C. Scott] was a different category of animal when he got drunk. He’d break into my hotel room, which he did in Italy, London and at the Beverly Hills Hotel, attack me to where I was frightened for my life, and scream, ‘Why won’t you marry me?’ Well, I would never marry a man who couldn’t control his liquor. Me, I’m a happy drunk. I laugh, I dance. I certainly don’t break bottles and threaten to kill.

Animal

Drunk

Men

I don’t mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I’ll go– cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.

Glasses

Hands

Scotch

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Heart

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House

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Quotes by Ava Gardner

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!”

Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl’s values

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.

Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

Fame gives you everything you never wanted.

He will always be my Sir Galahad.

Hollywood – that’s a place where love is viewed both pragmatically and philosophically in the saying, ‘Tis better to have loved and divorced than never to have had any publicity at all.

I couldn’t imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.

I don’t mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I’ll go– cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.

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