Lucille Ball

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

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

“I don't know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me... anecdotes. But never a joke.”

“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 spell Bob Hope C-L-A-S-S.”

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

“Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.”

“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 more things you do, the more you can do.”

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

“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 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.”

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

“I'm not funny. What I am is brave.”

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

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

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

“Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.”