 I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one. |
| In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. |
| I'm not funny. What I am is brave. |
| If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. |
| 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. |
| Ability is of little account without opportunity. |
| The more things you do, the more you can do. |
| 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. |
| I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can. |
| Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts. |
| Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. |
| 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. |
| The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. |
| I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. |
| How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them. |
| You see much more of your children once they leave home. Topics: Children |
| I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. |
| Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. |
| Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt. |
| 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. |
