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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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'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.

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Ability is of little account without opportunity.

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I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.

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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. Lucille Ball

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

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Responsibility is the ability to respond.

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