Ava Gardner Biography

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

"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."

"Everybody kisses everybody else in this crummy business all the time. It's the kissiest business in the world."

"I wish to live until 150 year-old but the day I'll die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whisky in the other."

[On plastic surgery] “What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.”

“Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.”