"I was determined to advance my career even if it meant sleeping with every guy from the stage door guardian to the director."

"Desi was the great love of my life. I will miss him until the day I die. But I don't regret divorcing him. I just couldn't take it anymore."

"Desi was the only one who ever meant anything. The others came and went so fast I hardly knew them."

"My only to-die moments in life have been when I've lost my self-respect."

"I'm not funny. What I am is brave."

"The important thing in life is our relationship with other human beings. It's not what we set out to get, but how we go about the daily task of living."

"I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be."

"I'm happy I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways."

"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."

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

"A man who can correctly guess a woman's age may be smart, but he isn't very bright."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."

 

I Love Lucy