Ava Gardner

I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.

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.

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.

Although no one believes me I have always been a country girl and still have a country girls values

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.

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

What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

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.