Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

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.

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.

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.

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

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

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.