One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

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

I never thought I was funny. I don't THINK funny.

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

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.

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.