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.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we’d profit from them.
Some of the most gifted people I’ve ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?
The more things you do, the more things you can do.
It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste.
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
Luck? Luck is hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.
I believe that we’re as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.
Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.
Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don’t rush; otherwise you’ll look like a patchwork quilt.
Women’s Lib? Oh, I’m afraid it doesn’t interest me one bit. I’ve been so liberated it hurts.
People either have comedy or they don’t. You can’t teach it to them.
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 never thought I was funny. I don’t THINK funny.
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.
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.