More Quotes by Lucille Ball
Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
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.
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
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.
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.
A man who correctly guesses a woman`s age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
