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.

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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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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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It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

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Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.

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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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Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?

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People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.

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