Lucille Ball Quotations

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.

People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.

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

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.

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.

I never thought I was funny. I don't THINK funny.

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 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.

It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.