Lucille Ball

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.

Lucille Ball

Responsibility is the ability to respond.

Lucille Ball

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

Lucille Ball

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

Whether we’re prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.

Lucille Ball

Children internalize their parents’ unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

Lucille Ball

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.

Lucille Ball

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we’d profit from them.

Lucille Ball

How to do half-hour comedy innovatively is something I do pride myself on. We invented it with ‘I Love Lucy.’

Lucille Ball

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.

Lucille Ball