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 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.
More Lucille Ball Quotes
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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 regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
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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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Responsibility is the ability to respond.
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Some of the most gifted people I’ve ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?
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A man who correctly guesses a woman`s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.
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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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I’m not funny. What I am is brave.
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Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.
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It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.
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Whether we’re prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.
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I 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.
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In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
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