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. Ava Gardner More Quotes by Ava Gardner More Quotes From Ava Gardner Fame gives you everything you never wanted. Ava Gardner wanted fame giving Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect. Ava Gardner doing-nothing perfect water Sex isn't all that important, but it is when you love someone very much. Ava Gardner when-you-love-someone important sex Oh, what the hell did I know? I went to the set the first day in full makeup and the director told me to take it off. So I did the film without makeup. I had nothing to do with anything I did. I never understood why I was so famous. Ava Gardner makeup directors firsts All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I'm through. Ava Gardner looks When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place. Ava Gardner temper loses honey Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille. Ava Gardner anatomy braille study Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me. Ava Gardner finals marriage thinking Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home. Ava Gardner home life mean 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 Ava Gardner sexy mistake thinking So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back. Ava Gardner nuggets lust gold I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely. Ava Gardner wells reason thinking I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels. Ava Gardner jewels writing book 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. Ava Gardner taken sleep running Sing me not a song; let me hear your recital of veneration and respect; this I will listen to over and over when I share your need of pleasing. Ava Gardner respect song needs I am deeply superficial. Ava Gardner superficial ego I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul. Ava Gardner heart motivational inspirational 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. Ava Gardner publicity hollywood love-is I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood. Ava Gardner sunrise actresses hollywood He will always be my Sir Galahad. Ava Gardner galahad
