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More Quotes by Lucille Ball
Responsibility is the ability to respond.
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.
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.
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.
Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.
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.
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
