Lucille Ball Quotes - Page 2

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

  Lucille Ball

  Inspirational, Funny, Confidence

  "The Real Story of Lucille Ball" by Eleanor Harris, (Ch. 1), 1954.

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

  Lucille Ball

  Fall, Love You, Rest Of Your Life

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• Ability is of little account without opportunity.

  Lucille Ball

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Lucille Ball

  Brave, Directors, Scared

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Lucille Ball

  Years, Hollywood, Shy

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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'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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• 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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• 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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