Quotes from Lucille Ball

I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

Responsibility is the ability to respond.

You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience. Keep your head up, keep your shoulders back, keep your self-respect, be nice, be smart. And remember that there are practically no overnight successes.

I have a theory about the assists we get in life. Only rarely can we repay those people who helped us, but we can pass that help along to others.

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.

It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.

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.

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 have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

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 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.

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