Top 85 Quotes About Lucille Ball
#1. I have a great work ethic - from watching Lucille Ball, not necessarily my own family.
Jenny Lewis
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. I wrote three years for Lucille Ball. She taught me everything I know about physical comedy.
Garry Marshall
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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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#20. 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
#21. I would rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. ~Lucille Ball
K. Langston
#23. Imagine the talented love-child of Andr Previn and Lucille Ball.
Scott Simon
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. My sister Kim is like Lucille Ball. She's magical in terms of her performance and her writing.
Marlon Wayans
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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 opportunity is and what isn't.
Lucille Ball
#32. I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
Lucille Ball
#33. I dyed my hair this crazy red to bid for attention. It has become a trademark, and I've got to keep it this way.
Lucille Ball
#35. Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.
Lucille Ball
#36. 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
#37. Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?
Lucille Ball
#38. Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Lucille Ball
#39. It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
Lucille Ball
#40. 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.
Lucille Ball
#41. I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
Lucille Ball
#42. I would rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not
Lucille Ball
#43. 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.
Lucille Ball
#44. Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.
Lucille Ball
#45. The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball
#46. It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
Lucille Ball
#47. I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.
Lucille Ball
#48. I wanted to get out of the pictures and stay home so that I could have children.
Lucille Ball
#49. 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
#50. The more things you do, the more you can do.
Lucille Ball
#51. You see much more of your children once they leave home.
Lucille Ball
#52. TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children.
Lucille Ball
#53. Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.
Lucille Ball
#54. How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.
Lucille Ball
#55. 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.
Lucille Ball
#56. 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.
Lucille Ball
#57. Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Lucille Ball
#58. The more things you do, the more things you can do.
Lucille Ball
#59. In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
Lucille Ball
#60. 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
#61. How to do half-hour comedy innovatively is something I do pride myself on. We invented it with 'I Love Lucy.'
Lucille Ball
#62. Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
Lucille Ball
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
Lucille Ball
#67. Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
Lucille Ball
#68. 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
#69. A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
Lucille Ball
#70. I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Lucille Ball
#71. Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.
Lucille Ball
#72. I never thought I was funny. I don't THINK funny.
Lucille Ball
#73. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
#74. 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
#75. I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
Lucille Ball
#77. I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven't.
Lucille Ball
#78. 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
#79. I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
Lucille Ball
#80. People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.
Lucille Ball
#81. Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
Lucille Ball
#82. 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.
Lucille Ball
#84. 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
#85. 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
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