Lucille Ball – 15 Quotes

15 Quotes by Lucille Ball

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

– 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 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

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

I’m not funny. What I am is brave.

– Lucille Ball

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

– Lucille Ball

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

– Lucille Ball

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

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

– 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

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

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

– 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