Lucille Ball

I've seen 'Mork & Mindy' a couple times. Robin Williams amazes me. And I love Gary Coleman. He puts me away. He puts everybody away.

How to do half-hour comedy innovatively is something I do pride myself on. We invented it with 'I Love Lucy.'

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

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

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.

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.

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

I've seen 'Mork & Mindy' a couple times. Robin Williams amazes me. And I love Gary Coleman. He puts me away. He puts everybody away.

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.

You spell Bob Hope C-L-A-S-S.

TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children.

I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don't grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don't anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.

I don't know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me... anecdotes. But never a joke.

I dyed my hair this crazy red to bid for attention. It has become a trademark, and I've got to keep it this way.

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

I don't think you should write a book until you tell the absolute truth. You can't do that until you're 85, and I don't want to live that long. I've always prided myself on knowing when to get off, and I hope it works out that way.

I wanted to get out of the pictures and stay home so that I could have children.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.