Lucille Ball Quotes

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

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

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

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.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

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

Love yourself first and everything falls into line.

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

Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.

A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.

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.

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

Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

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

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.

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

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

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

The more things you do, the more things you can do.

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

Responsibility is the ability to respond.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

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

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

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

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.

Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.

It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

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.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

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

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.

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

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 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.

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.

I never thought I was funny. I don't THINK funny.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.

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

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.

If you want something done ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do the more you can do.

The more things you do, the more you can do.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.