The best Quotes by Ava Gardner

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.

I was born with good health and a strong body and spent years abusing them.

It's a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.

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

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.

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

Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl.

It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.

I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

London. The beating heart of England.

England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.

Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.

Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

I love to come to L.A. to visit, and then I like to come to rainy old London because it's home.

In London I feel free; nobody bothers anyone and everyone is free to express themselves.

There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

The best creative no longer has to originate in Chicago or London; it will be coming from Stockholm, Tokyo, and Seoul as well.

I think that for me, as a UNC graduate, I value my education - I think everyone who's gone to that university values education.

Michael: "Don't forget my North Carolina shorts!"
Daffy: "Your shorts? From college?"
Michael: "I wore them under my Chicago Bulls uniform every game."
Looney Tunes: "Eeeew."
Michael: "I washed them after every game."
Daffy: "Hahaha... sure!"

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to North Carolina - and that's pretty much the same thing.

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.

If you act like you know what you're going, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery.

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

When I was a boy, it never occurred to me that one day I might participate at the birthday of a German Chancellor. But that was before I knew that smoking four packs of cigarettes and consuming ten Coca-Colas a day guaranteed longevity.

Every time you kiss me, it's like sunshine and whiskey.

Look, for the last time: We have nothing to protect but our honor. So you can take your cheap horse piss that you call "whiskey" which, by the way, is spelled without an "e" and is nothing compared to a Single Malt Scotch and you can go fk yourself.

They say God invented whiskey to stop the Irish from rulin' the world.

If you see German soldiers, don't panic. They are here to help.

I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election. I'm voting for Kamala Harris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them.