Lucille Ball - biography

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

“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.”

“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’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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”

“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.”

“I regret the passing of the studio system.  I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.”

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

“I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.”

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

“I’m not funny.  What I am is brave.”

“If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it.  The more things you do, the more you can do.”

“It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.”

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

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

Lucille Ball has appeared in the following films:
The Bowery (1933)
Bottoms Up (1934)
Broadway Bill (1934)
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)
Jealousy (1934)
The Affairs of Cellini (1934)
I Dream Too Much (1935)
Roberta (1935)
Top Hat (1935)
Follow the Fleet (1936)
Muss ’em Up (1936)
Stage Door (1937)
Having Wonderful Time (1938)
Joy of Living (1938)
Room Service (1938)
The Big Street (1942)
Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)
Thousands Cheer (1943)
Meet the People (1944)
Without Love (1945)
Lover Come Back (1946)
The Dark Corner (1946)
Two Smart People (1946)
Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
Lured (1947)
Easy Living (1949)
Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949)
Sorrowful Jones (1949)
Fancy Pants (1950)
Forever, Darling (1956)
The Facts of Life (1960)
Critic’s Choice (1963)
A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
All About People (1967)
Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)