Lucille Ball Quotes - Page 2

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• When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.

  Lucille Ball

  Mistake, Years, Mad

  "Love, Lucy" by Lucille Ball, (p. 212), 1996.

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

  Lucille Ball

  Happiness, Happy, Spring

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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.

  Lucille Ball

  Differences, Empathy, Too Much

  Lucille Ball (1997). “Love, Lucy”, p.31, Penguin

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• Ability is of little account without opportunity.

  Lucille Ball

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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.

  Lucille Ball

  Struggle, Mind, Important

  Lucille Ball (1997). “Love, Lucy”, p.46, Penguin

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

  Lucille Ball

  People, Comedy, Teach

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• 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.

  Lucille Ball

  Hate, Divorce, Eye

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• I don't suppose that hard work, discipline, and a perfectionist attitude toward my work did me any harm. They are a big part of my makeup today, as any of my co-workers will tell you. And when life seemed unbearable, I learned to live in my imagination, and to step inside other people's skins- indispensable abilities for an actress.

  Lucille Ball

  Attitude, Hard Work, Makeup

  "Love, Lucy" by Lucille Ball, (pp. 9-10), 1996.

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

  Lucille Ball

  Funny, Witty, Children

  "The Last Word" by Carolyn Warner, (Ch. 16), 1992.

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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.

  Lucille Ball

  Love, Real, Ham

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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.

  Lucille Ball

  Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting

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

  Lucille Ball

  People, Mets, Homosexual

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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.

  Lucille Ball

  Quilts, Hands, Looks

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

  Lucille Ball

  Children, Parent, Contentment

  Lucille Ball (1997). “Love, Lucy”, p.196, Penguin

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• 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.

  Lucille Ball

  Children, Husband, Home

  "Love, Lucy" by Lucille Ball, (p. 113), 1996.

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

  Lucille Ball

  Love, Mistake, Divorce

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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.

  Lucille Ball

  Hurt, Interest, Liberated

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

  Lucille Ball

  Regret, Talent, Appreciative

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Lucille Ball

  Children, Thinking, Two

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• Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.

  Lucille Ball

  Television, World, Recognition

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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.

  Lucille Ball

  Stupid, Trying, Tvs

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

  Lucille Ball

  Thinking

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