Top 100 Lucille Quotes
#1. Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.
Julia Roberts
#2. I have a great work ethic - from watching Lucille Ball, not necessarily my own family.
Jenny Lewis
#3. Learning to sketch the nude human form is standard practice for a beginning drawing class," she said. "We always hire a nude model. Last season I did it myself." While he was adjusting to the horror of that, Lucille went on.
Jill Shalvis
#4. If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. Lucille Ball
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#5. So many people: Lucille Ball is the earliest incarnation of a woman I thought was funny, Joan Rivers, Roseanne, Carol Burnett, Gilda Radnor, down to current times, where you have Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, and Kristen Wiig.
Chelsea Peretti
#6. Lucille always loved a strong breeze. She said it was nature's way of blowing away our sorrows.'
Just then another gust of wind whipped around us. Aunt Tootie smiled. I smiled too.
Beth Hoffman
#7. Cookie's cousin Lucille, for example. Or her second cousins. Or her uncle on her mother's side. Her whole family, in fact, was a Harvard study waiting to happen.
Darynda Jones
#8. Harry sometimes wished that Lucille and Trinket could swap personalities; he thought Lucille was prettier, but Trinket rarely gave him any shit, which was nice.
Brian Alan Ellis
#9. I would rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. ~Lucille Ball
K. Langston
#11. Imagine the talented love-child of Andr Previn and Lucille Ball.
Scott Simon
#12. A firefly blinked in front of me, and Lucille leaped off the step. It flew higher, but that dumb cat kept reaching for it. She didn't seem to know how far away it really was. Like the stars. Like a lot of things.
Kami Garcia
#13. My mother is from another time - the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that's what she loves. A lot of times she tells me she doesn't know what I'm talking about. I know if I wasn't her son and she was flipping through the TV and saw me, she would just keep going.
Steven Wright
#14. I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis.
Robert Osborne
#15. I think that she's a great dame. I'm crazy for Lucille.
Jessica Walter
#16. TV actress Lucille Ball once remarked, 'I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I've not done.' This
Ashwin Sanghi
#17. I took a couple of classes in clowning, but that was more like Lucille Ball kind of slapstick, not Ringling Brothers. But we had to do things silently, and the teacher would do this running commentary. 'Does this make Clown sad? Oh, Clown doesn't like that, does Clown?' Always 'Clown.' Never a name.
June Diane Raphael
#18. My sister Kim is like Lucille Ball. She's magical in terms of her performance and her writing.
Marlon Wayans
#19. Connie, giving her thoughts on why Vinnie's hot temper is less than normal, says: Lucille must have fed him a Vallium smoothie this morning.
Janet Evanovich
#20. The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball.
Ellen DeGeneres
#21. Lucille, please make them go away!" she moaned, her voice muffled.
"Do you think I am a divine being sent from the celestial realm to guard you from the harsh punishment of rousing from your slumber?"
"Is that a yes?"
"I am surrounded by idiots.
Erica Sehyun Song
#22. You think they let you have sex in the old people's home?" Lucille asked Callie. "Because I'd really miss it.
Jill Shalvis
#23. There's a quote of hers [Lucille Ball] that I've always loved: 'I guess I would rather regret the things I've done than to regret the things I've never done.
Carol Burnett
#24. One of the greatest gifts to mankind is laughter, and one of the greatest gifts to laughter is Lucille Ball. God has her now but thanks to television, we'll have her forever.
Bob Hope
#25. I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw so much of my own childhood there.
Ben Stiller
#26. I wrote three years for Lucille Ball. She taught me everything I know about physical comedy.
Garry Marshall
#27. At one point, Lucille's agent wanted to have me fired, telling her that my eyes were bigger than hers. When I head this, I told her that if I had her looks and talent, I'd keep me and fire the agent!
Vivian Vance
#28. The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B.B. King
#29. Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#30. Growing up I wanted to be a mixture of Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Apparently I told my mum when I was eight that I wanted to be an actor.
Dianna Agron
#31. How many fingers am I holding up?" he inquired. Lucille regarded him blearily and said, "Avocado.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#32. Nowhere is America's unease with reproduction better demonstrated than on a 1952 episode of "I Love Lucy." The TV comedy made the bold move to incorporate Lucille Ball's real-life pregnancy into its storyline. The actors, however, weren't allowed to say the word "pregnant.
Anonymous
#33. French martinis or lemon drops or cosmos and impromptu viewings of Auntie Mame (the Rosalind Russell version, not the Lucille Ball version) or Steel Magnolias.
Kristen Ashley
#34. I loved being a redhead! I always wanted to try it. I was obsessed with Lucille Ball growing up. I really wanted to try it but I always thought that doing it would ruin my hair.
Tracee Ellis Ross
#35. One of many joyful moments with BB King was him letting me play 'Lucille.'
... The thrill will never be gone ...
Stevie Wonder
#36. It's fun to get a message on the phone service that Lucille Ball or Burt Reynolds called, and play it very blase by asking, 'Anyone else?'
Charles Nelson Reilly
#37. jenna had felt sexy-funny, like lucille ball with flour streaks on her face, a crumb-covered apron that didn't exactly flatter her, and yet nick had kissed her like a prom king falling for the reinvented girl in a movie.
Emily Franklin
#38. Lucy is a name for a child. If you ever truly want to make it in the world, you should go by Lucille." "Noted. If you ever want to be the life of the party, you should consider the nickname Graham Cracker.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#39. I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille.
Desi Arnaz
#40. My aunt looked like Lucille Ball, and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her.
Sandra Lerner
#41. Lucille," Norma Jean whispered loud enough for me to hear from my foliage hideout. She leaned over her walker and adjusted her glasses. "Is that Willis Harvey up front by Elsa?"
"Well, pinch my pooch, I believe it is," Lucille said. "I barely recognize him with his clothes on.
Ann Charles
#42. I loved Julia Louis-Dreyfus's show 'The New Adventures of Old Christine.' That made me laugh out loud. She's like Lucille Ball. She's brilliant.
Helen Hunt
#43. Many of the most accomplished people of our era were considered by experts to have no future. Jackson Pollock, Marcel Proust, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Lucille Ball, and Charles Darwin were all thought to have little potential for their chosen fields.
Carol S. Dweck
#44. While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.
Bill Murray
#45. I'd like to play a mixture of Lucille Ball meets Murphy Brown meets Glenn Close on 'Damages,' to keep a little bit of the darkness in there. I like dark comedy a lot.
Joelle Carter
#46. Lucille Biggers Langford and Florence Mabry Whiteside. As the
Charles Portis
#47. Plasma on the wall/Write my name on your heart like I'm Lucille Ball/But love changes, a thug changes/And best friends become strangers
Ras Kass
#48. Lucille was a darling lady. Probably the finest comedienne in the business.
Robert Stack
#49. The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.
Keith Thibodeaux
#50. You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, with four hungry children and a crop in the field.
Kenny Rogers
#51. But not every dog was Boo Radley. Sometimes a dog was just a dog. Sometimes a cat was just a cat. Still, I opened the screen door and stuck a red sticker on Lucille's head.
Kami Garcia
#52. I remember watching 'I Love Lucy' with my little brother. We were obsessed with 'I Love Lucy.' And I just remember thinking, 'I want to do that.' I love old comedic actresses - Madeline Kahn, Lucille Ball.
Kether Donohue
#53. Wuttaya say."
"Bill's inside," Lucille said. "Get me a drink, willya, Harry?"
"Sure.
J.D. Salinger
#54. Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
#55. To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.
Lucille Clifton
#56. In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
Lucille Ball
#57. I've seen 'Mork & Mindy' a couple times. Robin Williams amazes me. And I love Gary Coleman. He puts me away. He puts everybody away.
Lucille Ball
#58. How to do half-hour comedy innovatively is something I do pride myself on. We invented it with 'I Love Lucy.'
Lucille Ball
#59. Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
#60. Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.
Lucille Clifton
#61. Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.
Lucille Clifton
#62. In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.
Lucille Clifton
#63. People of character don't allow the environment to dictate their style.
Lucille Kallen
#64. dreaming your x-ray vision could see the beauty in me.
Lucille Clifton
#65. What does it mean that a Christian must have God's life inside him?
Lucille Travis
#66. Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
Lucille Ball
#67. What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
Lucille Clifton
#69. I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.
Lucille Clifton
#70. Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.
Lucille Clifton
#71. Taking good care of yourself means the people in your life receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
Lucille Zimmerman
#72. 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
#73. 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.
Lucille Ball
#74. Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense
Lucille Clifton
#75. Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive ...
Lucille Kallen
#76. A woman can do anything she wants as long as she doesn't do anything she wants! She can go anywhere she likes as long as she stays put!
Lucille Kallen
#77. Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
#78. Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
#79. May you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back
Lucille Clifton
#81. I will also continue to fight to provide better economic security for victims of domestic violence.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
#82. 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
#83. You must think your pretty cool huh, just playing the critic and judging the world from the sidelines.
Lucille Kallen
#84. I find the scientific mind horrendous. All those brains and not a moral imperative between them.
Lucille Kallen
#85. I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
Lucille Ball
#86. Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
Lucille Ball
#87. Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental.
Lucille Kallen
#88. My Mama Moved Among the Days My Mama moved among the days like a dreamwalker in a field; seemed like what she touched was here seemed like what touched her couldn't hold, she got us almost through the high grass then seemed like she turned around and ran right back in right back on in
Lucille Clifton
#89. Real love, true love is not like the shooting star that makes you go, "ooh, aah". Real, true love is like the constancy of the sun that comes up slowly every morning - sometimes too hot; sometimes hidden behind the clouds, but always there. Therefore, often take for granted.
Lucille Anderson
#90. We don't have to relive the sad and bad memories of Christmas Past. We can create new Christmas memories in the present for the future.
Tom North
#91. A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
Lucille Ball
#92. I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Lucille Ball
#93. Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.
Lucille Ball
#94. My idea of success was to be a boy - possibly because my brothers, Leon and Arthur, were my father's pride and joy, whereas he had to be introduced to me several times before he got it firmly planted in his mind that I was part of the family ...
Lucille Kallen
#95. I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.
Lucille Clifton
#96. The more things you do, the more things you can do.
Lucille Ball
#97. This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
#98. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
#99. Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
#100. I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don't grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don't anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.
Lucille Ball
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