Words matter. These are the best Lucille Ball Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
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.
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
You spell Bob Hope C-L-A-S-S.
A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.
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.
Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don’t rush; otherwise you’ll look like a patchwork quilt.
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
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.
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
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 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.
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.
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
I wanted to get out of the pictures and stay home so that I could have children.
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
The more things you do, the more you can do.
Women’s Lib? Oh, I’m afraid it doesn’t interest me one bit. I’ve been so liberated it hurts.
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
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’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.
