I’m not funny. What I am is brave.
LUCILLE BALLIt wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
More Lucille Ball Quotes
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I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
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I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
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People either have comedy or they don’t. You can’t teach it to them.
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I’m happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
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I’m sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn’t think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste.
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Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don’t rush; otherwise you’ll look like a patchwork quilt.
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Whether we’re prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.
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One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
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Children internalize their parents’ unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
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It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
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Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.
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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
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I never thought I was funny. I don’t THINK funny.
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I will never do another TV series. It couldn’t top I Love Lucy, and I’d be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.
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