Lucille Ball Legends Of The Screen

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Lucille Ball Legends Of The Screen

Lucille Ball was an American actress and was a pioneer of comedy. She led the way to comedy, her T.V. show, I Love Lucy, ran for six seasons. She one of Hollywood’s greatest icons, and arguably the most iconic female entertainer of all time.

Lucille Ball was more than a brilliant comedienne. She was also a trailblazing feminist badass during a time when women weren't allowed to be any of those things. She was the first female to own a major television studio. In 1962, The Desilu Production came into being which showcased hit series such as Star Trek and Mission Impossible. 

Actress and Producer who became a household name for her self-produced sitcoms such as:

1. Life with Lucy
2. Here's Lucy Comedy Hour
3. The Lucy Show
4. The Lucy–Desi
5. I Love Lucy

She developed a huge following and inspired many women to achieve great heights in various fields of media, entertainment, and politics. 

Her mammoth list of accolades includes:

1. Nominated for 13 Primetime Emmy Award and winning five times
2. Crystal Award
3. Golden Globe Cecil B
4. DeMille Award
5. The Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Centre Honors.
6. Governors Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. 
7. Two stars on the Hollywood Walk of fame (one for television and the other for motion pictures)

Lucille Ball died April 26, 1989 of a ruptured aortic aneurism at the age of 77. The woman who will always be remembered as the crazy, accident-prone, lovable Lucy Ricardo. 

Wise And Witty Lucille Ball Quotes:

1. 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.
2. The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
3. A man who correctly guesses a woman`s age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
4. Here's what I advise any young struggling actress today: The important thing is to develop as a woman first, and a performer second. You wouldn't prostitute yourself to get a part, not if you're in the right mind. You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience.
5. One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
6. 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-centred. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and freer.
7. 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.
8. I don't suppose that hard work, discipline, and a perfectionist attitude toward my work did me any harm. They are a big part of my makeup today, as any of my co-workers will tell you. And when life seemed unbearable, I learned to live in my imagination, and to step inside other people's skins- indispensable abilities for an actress.
9. You see much more of your children once they leave home.
10. 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.
11. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really must love yourself to get anything done in this world.
12. I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.
13. I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
14. In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
15. Remember to recognize the small successes that you will have. Don't let the brightness of that big goal blind you to what happens on the way toward the goal. Meet one wave at a time and enjoy what progress you make. I want you please not to be taken up in the undertow of pessimism.
16. Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.
17. Love yourself first and everything falls into line.
18. Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
19. Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
20. People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.
21. 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.
22. 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 must know when to get off.