Top 59 Quotes & Sayings by Lucille Ball
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American comedian Lucille Ball.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
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'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 dyed my hair this crazy red to bid for attention. It has become a trademark, and I've got to keep it this way.
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
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 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.
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.
How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.
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.
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
You spell Bob Hope C-L-A-S-S.
The more things you do, the more you can do.
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
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.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
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 wanted to get out of the pictures and stay home so that I could have children.
A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
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.
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.
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
How to do half-hour comedy innovatively is something I do pride myself on. We invented it with 'I Love Lucy.'
Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
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.
Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.
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.
Here's what I advise any young struggling actress today: The important thing is to develop as a woman first, and a performer second. You wouldn't prostitute yourself to get a part, not if
you're in the right mind. You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience.
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.
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.
I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
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.
Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.
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.
Love yourself first and everything falls into line.
Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
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.
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.
People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.
Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.
I never thought I was funny. I don't THINK funny.
The more things you do, the more things you can do.
I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.
Responsibility is the ability to respond.
A man who correctly guesses a woman`s age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.
Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.
Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?
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