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 BALLChildren internalize their parents’ unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
More Lucille Ball Quotes
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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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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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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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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
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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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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.
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People either have comedy or they don’t. You can’t teach it to them.
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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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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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I never thought I was funny. I don’t THINK funny.
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How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we’d profit from them.
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Love yourself first and everything falls into line.
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