WIST Quotations

Ball, Lucille -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

Lucille Ball (1911-1989) American actress, comedian, producer
(Attributed)

Ball, Lucille -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

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 actress, comedian, producer
(Attributed)

quoted in Eleanor Harris, The Real Story of Lucille Ball, 1954

Ball, Lucille -- Love, Lucy (1996)

Dave — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:43:18 +0000

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 actress, comedian, producer
Love, Lucy (1996)