Here's what I advise any young struggling actress today: The important thing is to develop as a woman first, and a performer second. You wouldn't prostitute yourself to get a part, not if you're in the right mind. You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience.

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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.

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

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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

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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.

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

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

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

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Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

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