Ava Gardner

“Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.”

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

“Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]”

“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.”

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

“After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: "She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!"”

“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.”

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