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.
LUCILLE BALLI 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.
More Lucille Ball Quotes
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It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
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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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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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Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.
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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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Children internalize their parents’ unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
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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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Love yourself first and everything falls into line.
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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 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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Some of the most gifted people I’ve ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?
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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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I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
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In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
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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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