I’m not funny. What I am is brave.
LUCILLE BALLI’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.
More Lucille Ball Quotes
-
-
Children internalize their parents’ unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
LUCILLE BALL -
Responsibility is the ability to respond.
LUCILLE BALL -
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
LUCILLE BALL -
How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we’d profit from them.
LUCILLE BALL -
Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.
LUCILLE BALL -
I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
LUCILLE BALL -
It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
LUCILLE BALL -
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.
LUCILLE BALL -
People either have comedy or they don’t. You can’t teach it to them.
LUCILLE BALL -
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
LUCILLE BALL -
Some of the most gifted people I’ve ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?
LUCILLE BALL -
Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don’t rush; otherwise you’ll look like a patchwork quilt.
LUCILLE BALL -
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.
LUCILLE BALL -
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.
LUCILLE BALL -
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
LUCILLE BALL