Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others' opinions of me, I became more confident and free.

Grandpa got us up early, otherwise we might miss something. Sunsets, he loved 'em. Made us love 'em.

How to do half-hour comedy innovatively is something I do pride myself on. We invented it with 'I Love Lucy.'

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

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don't grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don't anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

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.

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

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.

I believe a woman's place is in the home or anyway in some cosy nightclub.

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.

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

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

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.