Lucille Ball Quotes
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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 cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.
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I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
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I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
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The more things you do, the more things you can do.
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
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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.
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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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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.
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There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.
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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.
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Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
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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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It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
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If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
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Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.
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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.
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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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Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?
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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.
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Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
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I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.