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.
LUCILLE BALLI was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.
More Lucille Ball Quotes
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Children internalize their parents’ unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
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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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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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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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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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Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.
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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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Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.
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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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I’m not funny. What I am is brave.
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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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Whether we’re prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.
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Responsibility is the ability to respond.
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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 believe that we’re as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.
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