How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we’d profit from them.
LUCILLE BALLI 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.
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 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’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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It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
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Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.
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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.
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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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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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Whether we’re prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.
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In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
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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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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
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I never thought I was funny. I don’t THINK funny.
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If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
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