Quotes About Lucille Ball

My style icons are Lucille Ball for her bouffant hair and all the updos, James Dean for his rockabilly style - the denim and rolled-up T-shirt thing. And I am also inspired by Dita Von Teese and Gwen Stefani. Their style is retro, but it's still very feminine at the same time.

I love 'I Love Lucy,' and I have the DVD set of 'I Love Lucy.'

The big three television companies (CBS, ABC, and NBC) measured their audiences in tens of millions: when CBS broadcast the episode of I Love Lucy in which Lucy had a baby to coincide with the actress who played Lucy, Lucille Ball, also having a baby, on January 19, 1953, 68.8 percent of the country's television sets were tuned in, a far higher proportion than were tuned in to Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the following day.

Lucille Ball]'s such a TV icon it's hard for some to separate the two Lucys—the gorgeous, snappy actress of film and the wacky, slapstick queen of television. On TV she was a middle-aged housewife, on film she was a dazzling beauty. The difficulty with her movie career wasn't that she was bad or not up to the roles. Quite the contrary: They were rarely up to her.

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.

Working with Lucille Ball was just a master class in how to do comedy.

Ask her to play a role—she was happy. Ask her to be Lucille Ball and she immediately became self-conscious and ill at ease.

How to do half-hour comedy innovatively is something I do pride myself on. We invented it with 'I Love Lucy.'

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.

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

I have a great work ethic - from watching Lucille Ball, not necessarily my own family.

Redheads have a lightness, a craziness, a kookiness. Think of Lucille Ball.

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.

I love Lucille Ball. But you don't call that Shakespeare. It's just entertainment, you know. And if you like that, then go have a ball, have fun.

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

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.

I think my entire career path was determined for me when I was 6 years old, watching reruns of 'I Love Lucy' on TV and thinking about making people laugh.

I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.

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.

Because of the sexual politics of previous eras, the comediennes to whom Roseanne [Barr] sees herself linked--Mae West, Judy Holliday, Lucille Ball--got their way by cunning indirection. But Roseanne prefers the head butt to the bon mot. She can rumble.

The center of activity on Pierce Street was Connie's Superette, a little market housed on the bottom floor of a large, asbestos-shingled apartment building. Connie, a fat woman with Lucille Ball red hair, sat behind the counter on a webbed porch chair. She kept a whirring electric fan trained on herself and was careful not to risk breaking her two-inch fingernails as she grudgingly rang up people's stuff.