Lucille Ball

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.

TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children.

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

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

I have an everyday religion that works for me. 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.

My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don't grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don't anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

It wasnt love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.

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

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