Ability is of little account without opportunity.

Responsibility is the ability to respond.

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.

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.

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

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.