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Ability is of little account without opportunity. – 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

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one. – Lucille Ball

I’m not funny. What I am is brave. – Lucille Ball

(About meeting Desi Arnaz for the first time.) It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes. – Lucille Ball

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. – Lucille Ball

You spell Bob Hope C-L-A-S-S. – Lucille Ball

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. – Lucille Ball

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

A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright. – Lucille Ball

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. – Lucille Ball

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. – Lucille Ball

It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. – Lucille Ball

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

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

(About Audrey Hepburn) She’s a tomboy and a fine comedienne. You’d never think of her being able to do my type of comedy. But she can. She has great energy, frail as she looks. But, well, she’s so beautiful, so ethereal, it would be sacrilege to put her through it. – Lucille Ball

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. – Lucille Ball

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. – Lucille Ball

The more things you do, the more you can do. -Lucille Ball

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. – Lucille Ball

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. – Lucille Ball

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

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can. – 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. – Lucille Ball

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done. – Lucille Ball

You see much more of your children once they leave home. – Lucille Ball

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. – Lucille Ball