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 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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Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.
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I’m not funny. What I am is brave.
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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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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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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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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 would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
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I believe that we’re as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.
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Love yourself first and everything falls into line.
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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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A man who correctly guesses a woman`s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.
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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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People either have comedy or they don’t. You can’t teach it to them.
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It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
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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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