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 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 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.

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.

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

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

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