110 Quotes by Ava Gardner

Mama, you know, poor baby, she'd had her family all finished: four daughters and a couple of sons, and suddenly, I arrived in her midlife on Christmas Eve 1922.

Mickey - the smallest husband I ever had and the biggest mistake I ever made - well, that year, it was.

I go on tremendous health kicks - exercise, yogurt, no booze. Of course, I smoke too much.

I hate journalists. I don't trust them.

I fell down in Hyde Park with a friend who'd had a hip operation, and neither of us could get up again. People must have thought we were a couple of drunks rolling around and walked on by.

It's fine being stared at as a pretty girl, but not as a freak. When I tried to make myself ugly, they said, 'Oh, she's lost her looks.'

The marriages to Mickey and Artie were easy come, easy go. I called them my 'starter husbands!'

I did a lot of hokey movies when I was starting out at MGM. Good and bad, mostly bad.

To be possessed when you are a child is just a wonderful feeling. It makes you feel safe. It makes you feel loved. But later if anyone tried to possess me - oh boy, I was out of there.