Children internalize their parents’ unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
LUCILLE BALLChildren internalize their parents’ unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
LUCILLE BALLIn life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
LUCILLE BALLUse a make-up table with everything close at hand and don’t rush; otherwise you’ll look like a patchwork quilt.
LUCILLE BALLPeople either have comedy or they don’t. You can’t teach it to them.
LUCILLE BALLKnowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste.
LUCILLE BALLLuck? 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.
LUCILLE BALLLove yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.
LUCILLE BALLIt’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
LUCILLE BALLI regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
LUCILLE BALLIf you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
LUCILLE BALLI 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 BALLLove yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
LUCILLE BALLAbility is of little account without opportunity.
LUCILLE BALLYou see much more of your children once they leave home.
LUCILLE BALLI am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
LUCILLE BALLI would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
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