Lucille Quotes & Sayings

These hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to go they do what they want to do. these hips are mighty hips. these hips are magic hips — Lucille Clifton

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. — Lucille Ball

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. — Lucille Ball

One of the greatest gifts to mankind is laughter, and one of the greatest gifts to laughter is Lucille Ball. God has her now but thanks to television, we'll have her forever. — Bob Hope

Say it clear, and it will be beautiful. — Lucille Clifton

Now get the hell out of here and go change the world. — Lucille Ball

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. — Lucille Ball

There's a quote of hers [Lucille Ball] that I've always loved: 'I guess I would rather regret the things I've done than to regret the things I've never done. — Carol Burnett

We had been assured by our elders that intelligence was a family trait. All my kin and forebears were people of substantial or remarkable intellect, thought somehow none of them had prospered in the world. Too bookish, my grandmother said with tart pride, and Lucille and I read constantly to forestall criticism, anticipating failure. If my family were not as intelligent as we were pleased to pretend, this was an innocent deception, for it was a matter of indifference to everybody whether we were intelligent or not. People always interpreted our slightly formal manner and our quiet tastes as a sign that we wished to stay a little apart. This was a matter of indifference, also, and we had our wish. — Marilynne Robinson

For her part in things, Lucille breathed in, held the image of the house and all that it meant to her in the universe of her lungs until she thought she might faint. Then she held it longer, clawing at this moment, this image, this life, this single breath, though she knew she would have to let it go. — Jason Mott

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

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. Lucille Ball

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Telling the truth about children's lives is radical. — Lucille Clifton

I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district. — Lucille Roybal-Allard

I never thought I was funny. I don't THINK funny. — Lucille Ball

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. — Lucille Ball

Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream. — Lucille Roybal-Allard

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

With such compelling information, the question is why haven't we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry. — Lucille Roybal-Allard

They ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine — Lucille Clifton

The more things you do, the more things you can do. — Lucille Ball

TV actress Lucille Ball once remarked, 'I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I've not done.' This — Ashwin Sanghi

Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed. — Lucille Clifton

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else. — Lucille Clifton

I come to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable. — Lucille Clifton

The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball. — Ellen DeGeneres

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world. — Lucille Ball

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one. — Lucille Clifton

Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us. — Lucille Ball

You spell Bob Hope C-L-A-S-S. — Lucille Ball

So Lucille pressed the button, and a panel slid open in the wall, and the transporter came through, and sure enough here was the bare butt of the client waiting to be whipped. For reasons best known to himself he had kept his shoes and socks on, so he was wearing well-polished black loafers and black silk socks. — Helen DeWitt

I loved Lucille Ball growing up. — Graham Norton

The more things you do, the more you can do. — Lucille Ball

Cookie's cousin Lucille, for example. Or her second cousins. Or her uncle on her mother's side. Her whole family, in fact, was a Harvard study waiting to happen. — Darynda Jones

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. — Lucille Ball

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. — Lucille Ball

Keep moving. Sometimes life threatens to overwhelm but if you can just make it to tomorrow another tomorrow will always come. — Sherry Lucille

Harry sometimes wished that Lucille and Trinket could swap personalities; he thought Lucille was prettier, but Trinket rarely gave him any shit, which was nice. — Brian Alan Ellis

No mass appeal. Ergo no profit. Ergo no use. The current World Credo. — Lucille Kallen

Wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no 7-11. i wish them one week early and wearing a white skirt. i wish them one week late. later i wish them hot flashes and clots like you wouldn't believe. let the flashes come when they meet someone special. let the clots come when they want to. let them think they have accepted arrogance in the universe, then bring them to gynecologists not unlike themselves. — Lucille Clifton

We don't have to relive the sad and bad memories of Christmas Past. We can create new Christmas memories in the present for the future. — Tom North

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 opportunity is and what isn't. — Lucille Ball

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. — Lucille Ball

The girls that I grew up with, and my friends and I, we just never had interests in common. I loved comedy. I loved Saturday Night Live, Gilda Radner, Lucille Ball, and Goldie Hawn movies. I just wanted to laugh. I liked women in comedy, and I liked male comics as I got a little older. My interests just never matched up with other girls'. — Amy Schumer

I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness. — Lucille Ball

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

Wuttaya say."
"Bill's inside," Lucille said. "Get me a drink, willya, Harry?"
"Sure. — J.D. Salinger

The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille. — B.B. King

We need new words for what this is, this hunger entering our loneliness like birds, stunning our eyes into rays of hope. we need the flutter that can save us, something that will swirl across the face of what we have become and bring us grace. — Lucille Clifton

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

Growing up I wanted to be a mixture of Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Apparently I told my mum when I was eight that I wanted to be an actor. — Dianna Agron

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts. — Lucille Ball

How many fingers am I holding up?" he inquired. Lucille regarded him blearily and said, "Avocado. — Sarah Rees Brennan

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

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me. — Lucille Clifton

I don't like the term 'voice-over.' — Lucille Bliss

During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations. — Lucille Roybal-Allard

Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental. — Lucille Kallen

Taking good care of yourself means the people in your life receive the best of you rather than what is left of you. — Lucille Zimmerman

The literature of America should reflect the children of America. — Lucille Clifton

Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens! — Lucille Kallen

You cannot play for safety and make art. — Lucille Clifton

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. — Lucille Ball

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. — Lucille Ball

Lucille always loved a strong breeze. She said it was nature's way of blowing away our sorrows.'
Just then another gust of wind whipped around us. Aunt Tootie smiled. I smiled too. — Beth Hoffman

Lucy is a name for a child. If you ever truly want to make it in the world, you should go by Lucille." "Noted. If you ever want to be the life of the party, you should consider the nickname Graham Cracker. — Brittainy C. Cherry

A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright. — Lucille Ball

The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties. — Lucille Roybal-Allard

I wrote three years for Lucille Ball. She taught me everything I know about physical comedy. — Garry Marshall

Tell people the truth, they laugh. The truth is so tragic they have to pretend it's a joke. — Lucille Kallen

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

I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be. — Lucille Ball

Once more Mary Jo, Bobby, Kevin, Dennis, Raymond, Lucille, Frankie, Coddles, Lyle, John, Andy, Miss Ursula, Jim, Lonnie, Postmaster Jones, William, Travis, Todd, Tony, Dennis M. . . . On the ride home from Sheriff's office, everyone was again on porches or at windows. Daron didn't call out their names this time, and this time no one waved. Where do the black people live? In the front yards! It was funny. (I guess that's better than the back of the bus, Louis had later added. Daron had thought that funny, too.) Louis's absence was always noticeable. Though skinny, he'd filled space like a fat man on a crowded elevator, except a welcome addition, not someone who provoked strangers to regard each other with situational solidarity. He had, in fact, induced people to regard each other with suspicion, to question the known. — T. Geronimo Johnson

Fortunately, like all good things, Christmas Day does come to an end. — Lucille Kallen

So many people: Lucille Ball is the earliest incarnation of a woman I thought was funny, Joan Rivers, Roseanne, Carol Burnett, Gilda Radnor, down to current times, where you have Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, and Kristen Wiig. — Chelsea Peretti

You think they let you have sex in the old people's home?" Lucille asked Callie. "Because I'd really miss it. — Jill Shalvis

Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense — Lucille Clifton

Connie, giving her thoughts on why Vinnie's hot temper is less than normal, says: Lucille must have fed him a Vallium smoothie this morning. — Janet Evanovich

What is chemistry in a relationship, Really? Chemistry can be spontaneous combustion that excites, incites, often harms. But not understood. Chemistry can also be that which is studied, intentional, and knows how to be repeated and improved upon. Do you have the right chemistry? — Lucille Anderson

But not every dog was Boo Radley. Sometimes a dog was just a dog. Sometimes a cat was just a cat. Still, I opened the screen door and stuck a red sticker on Lucille's head. — Kami Garcia

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

I think that she's a great dame. I'm crazy for Lucille. — Jessica Walter

[Law] is one part justice to nine parts expediency. Who needs it. — Lucille Kallen

I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis. — Robert Osborne

This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities. — Lucille Roybal-Allard

French martinis or lemon drops or cosmos and impromptu viewings of Auntie Mame (the Rosalind Russell version, not the Lucille Ball version) or Steel Magnolias. — Kristen Ashley

I loved being a redhead! I always wanted to try it. I was obsessed with Lucille Ball growing up. I really wanted to try it but I always thought that doing it would ruin my hair. — Tracee Ellis Ross

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

If Cloverleaf McCarty loses his shamrock singlet one more time, he's fired," Lucille said, slicing one finger against her long, serpentine neck for effect. A janitor walking past her office window saw the move, flinched, and looked down before there was a chance that he and "The Boss Lady" could make eye contact. — Holly Tierney-Bedord

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer. — Lucille Clifton

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

It's fun to get a message on the phone service that Lucille Ball or Burt Reynolds called, and play it very blase by asking, 'Anyone else?' — Charles Nelson Reilly

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. — Lucille Ball

Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn. — Lucille Roybal-Allard

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

It's irresponsible to think things are just going to work out because you believe things happen for a reason. I refuse to accept these things. I refuse to give in to that absurdity. You saw what happened in Lucille and you lived with Col all those years. You know the suffering they went through. Even this place. There are so many empty houses yet so many homeless. Society is breaking. The kingdoms are failing them. — Celia Mcmahon

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. — Lucille Ball

walked erect out of my sleep — Lucille Clifton

When you study a dog you love, you find beauty in every small detail, and so it is with Lucille: I have become enchanted by the small asymmetrical whorls of white fur on either side of her chest, and by her tail, which she carries in a high confident curve, and by her eyes, which are watchful and intelligent, the color of chestnuts. — Caroline Knapp

My idea of success was to be a boy - possibly because my brothers, Leon and Arthur, were my father's pride and joy, whereas he had to be introduced to me several times before he got it firmly planted in his mind that I was part of the family ... — Lucille Kallen