Lucille Ball

“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 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.”

“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 see much more of your children once they leave home.”

“I'm not funny. What I am is brave.”

“In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.”

“Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.”

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”

“I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.”

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

“I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.”

“Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.”

“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.”

“I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.”