Ava Gardner citations

“When I’m old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.”

“Sex isn't all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.”

“I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.”

“When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place.”

“On The Beach is a story about the end of the world, and Melbourne sure is the right place to film it.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.”

“Hell, I suppose if you stick around long enough they have to say something nice about you.”

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