More Quotes by Lucille Ball
Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.
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.
Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness. Lucille Ball
There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. 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.
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
