I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
– Lucille Ball
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
– Lucille Ball
I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
– Lucille Ball
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
– Lucille Ball
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
– Lucille Ball
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
– Lucille Ball
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.
– Lucille Ball
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
– Lucille Ball
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
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
– Lucille Ball
Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.
– Lucille Ball
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
– Lucille Ball
Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
– Lucille Ball
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
– Lucille Ball
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
– Lucille Ball
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
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
– Lucille Ball
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
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
– Lucille Ball
How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.