Quotes from 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.

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

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness . . . but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.

that at all. We're so used to failure, to being hurt and rebuffed, that we can easily come unhinged by success.

The best person to get something done is a busy person

I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not.

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

Love yourself first and everything falls into line

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.