More Quotes by Lucille Ball
Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
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.
People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
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.
How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
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.
Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.
