Top 70 Quotes & Sayings by Ava Gardner - Page 2

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.

God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.

So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.

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

I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.

He will always be my Sir Galahad.

I haven't taken an overdose of sleeping pills and called my agent. I haven't been in jail, and I don't go running to the psychiatrist every two minutes. That's something of an accomplishment these days.

I was never an actress -- none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.

I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.

I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.