Quotes from Lucille Ball

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.

It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

You spell Bob Hope C-L-A-S-S.

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.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

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

Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

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.

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