Lucille Ball
I wanted to get out of the pictures and stay home so that I could have children.Collection: Home
You see much more of your children once they leave home.Collection: Funny
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.Collection: Work
I'm not funny. What I am is brave.Collection: Funny
TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children.Collection: Marriage
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.Collection: Wisdom
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.Collection: Age
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Faith
Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.Collection: Women
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.Collection: Wisdom
The more things you do, the more you can do.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Failure
You spell Bob Hope C-L-A-S-S.Collection: Hope
A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.Collection: Age
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.Collection: Religion
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.Collection: Love
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
I dyed my hair this crazy red to bid for attention. It has become a trademark, and I've got to keep it this way.
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
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.
I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don't grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don't anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.
I've seen 'Mork & Mindy' a couple times. Robin Williams amazes me. And I love Gary Coleman. He puts me away. He puts everybody away.
How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.
Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.
I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
How to do half-hour comedy innovatively is something I do pride myself on. We invented it with 'I Love Lucy.'
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.
I don't think you should write a book until you tell the absolute truth. You can't do that until you're 85, and I don't want to live that long. I've always prided myself on knowing when to get off, and I hope it works out that way.
I don't know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me... anecdotes. But never a joke.
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
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.
I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.Collection: Happiness
I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.Collection: Inspirational
remember to recognize the small successes that you will have. Don't let the brightness of that big goal blind you to what happens on the way toward the goal. Meet one wave at a time and enjoy what progress you make. I want you please not to be taken up in the undertow of pessimism.Collection: Success
The more things you do, the more things you can do.Collection: Can Do
A man who correctly guesses a woman`s age may be smart, but he's not very bright.Collection: Funny
Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.Collection: Life
I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.Collection: Teenager
Responsibility is the ability to respond.Collection: Responsibility
Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.Collection: Life
Love yourself first and everything falls into line.Collection: Inspiring
Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.Collection: Good Luck
It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.Collection: Love
I don't suppose that hard work, discipline, and a perfectionist attitude toward my work did me any harm. They are a big part of my makeup today, as any of my co-workers will tell you. And when life seemed unbearable, I learned to live in my imagination, and to step inside other people's skins- indispensable abilities for an actress.Collection: Attitude
People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.Collection: People
Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.Collection: Children