You see much more of your children once they leave home.

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

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

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.

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.

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