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.
LUCILLE BALLI’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.
More Lucille Ball Quotes
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Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.
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Responsibility is the ability to respond.
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
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How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we’d profit from them.
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Luck? Luck is hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.
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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 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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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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It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
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I’m not funny. What I am is brave.
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Children internalize their parents’ unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
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Love yourself first and everything falls into line.
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I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
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