WIST

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

Lucille Ball (1911-1989) American comic actress
(Attributed)

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste.

Lucille Ball (1911-1989) American comic actress
(Attributed)
quoted in Eleanor Harris, The Real Story of Lucille Ball, 1954

For there’s a lot of masochism in the acting profession. We’re willing to take a lot of punishment, but the minute we hit a little bit of success we are liable to run from it. We’re frightened of it and develop all kinds of phobias as a consequence. Outsiders who don’t understand think we have a chip on our shoulder, but it’s not that at all. We’re so used to failure, to being hurt and rebuffed, that we can easily come unhinged by success.

Lucille Ball (1911-1989) American comic actress
Love, Lucy (1996)