Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?

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.

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.

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

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.

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

Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.