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 BALLPeople either have comedy or they don’t. You can’t teach it to them.
More Lucille Ball Quotes
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Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.
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Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.
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It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
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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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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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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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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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Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste.
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Children internalize their parents’ unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
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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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People either have comedy or they don’t. You can’t teach it to them.
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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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Responsibility is the ability to respond.
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