"It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy."
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"I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one."
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"The more things you do, the more things you can do."
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"I'm not funny. What I am is brave."
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"Responsibility is the ability to respond."
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"People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them."
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"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."
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"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done."
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"Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt."
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"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."
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"Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us."
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"It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes."
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"I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent."
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"I am not funny. The writers were funny. My directors were funny. The situations were funny… What I am is brave. I have never been scared. Not when I did movies, certainly not when I was a model and not when I did I Love Lucy."
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"I don't suppose that hard work, discipline, and a perfectionist attitude toward my work did me any harm. They are a big part of my makeup today, as any of my co-workers will tell you. And when life seemed unbearable, I learned to live in my imagination, and to step inside other people's skins- indispensable abilities for an actress."
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"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."
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"Ability is of little account without opportunity."
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"My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer."
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"Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily."
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"You see much more of your children once they leave home."
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