Lucille Ball Quotes

I don’t think you should write a book until you tell the absolute truth. You can’t do that until you’re 85, and I don’t want to live that long. I’ve always prided myself on knowing when to get off, and I hope it works out that way.

Responsibility is the ability to respond.

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

Love yourself first and everything falls into line.

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

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

How to do half-hour comedy innovatively is something I do pride myself on. We invented it with ‘I Love Lucy.’

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

I wanted to get out of the pictures and stay home so that I could have children.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

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

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