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.

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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

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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.

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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

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I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

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In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

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Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

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Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.

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How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.

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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. Lucille Ball

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