Lucille Ball Quotes
"In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Wisdom, Life)
"It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Being)
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Love, First, World)
"Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Love, Life, Man)
"The more things you do, the more you can do."
- Lucille Ball
"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Age, Lie)
"If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Want)
"Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Women, Interest)
"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 Ball
(Related: Work, People, Opportunity, Hard work, Luck)
"Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt."
- Lucille Ball
"I'm not funny. What I am is brave."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Funny)
"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."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Laughter, Value)
"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Regret)
"Ability is of little account without opportunity."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Opportunity, Ability)
"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 Ball
(Related: Love, Business, Will)
"I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can."
- Lucille Ball
"I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Talent, Regret)
"I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Love, Religion, First)
"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."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Life, Failure, Divorce, Eyes, Hate)
"I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Love, Work, Fact)
"How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Love, Divorce, Lawyers, Mistakes, Profit)
"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."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Children)
"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 Ball
(Related: Faith, Life, Optimism)