The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in the theatre. The actor is less dangerous than the dancing master.
I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.
Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.
There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness. . . but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.
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.
Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.
You can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary.
You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.