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.

People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.

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

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

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

I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

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