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I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
You spell Bob Hope C-L-A-S-S.
I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
Responsibility is the ability to respond.
The more things you do, the more you can do.
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
I never thought I was funny. I don't THINK funny.
The more things you do, the more things you can do.
Love yourself first and everything falls into line.
Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.
Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.
People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
I wanted to get out of the pictures and stay home so that I could have children.
Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.
A man who correctly guesses a woman`s age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?
I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
How to do half-hour comedy innovatively is something I do pride myself on. We invented it with 'I Love Lucy.'
Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.
I dyed my hair this crazy red to bid for attention. It has become a trademark, and I've got to keep it this way.
How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.
I don't know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me... anecdotes. But never a joke.
I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
I've seen 'Mork & Mindy' a couple times. Robin Williams amazes me. And I love Gary Coleman. He puts me away. He puts everybody away.
I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.
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.
I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.
I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
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.
TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children.
My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.
