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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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

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

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People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.

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

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

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

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I don't suppose that hard work, discipline, and a perfectionist attitude toward my work did me any harm. They are a big part of my makeup today, as any of my co-workers will tell you. And when life seemed unbearable, I learned to live in my imagination, and to step inside other people's skins- indispensable abilities for an actress.

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

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