Lucille Ball
I am not funny. The writers were funny. My directors were funny. The situations were funny… What I am is brave. I have never been scared. Not when I did movies, certainly not when I was a model and not when I did I Love Lucy.Collection: Brave
When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.Collection: Mistake
Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?Collection: People
My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.Collection: Children
I 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.Collection: Years
Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.Collection: Television
I never thought I was funny. I don't THINK funny.Collection: Thinking
It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.Collection: Firsts