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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When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.

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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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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.

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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

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The more things you do, the more things you can do.

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

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Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.

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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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I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

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