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Lucille Ball Quotes

Total quotes: 30
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. ”
— Lucille Ball, Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Tagged: Love Yourself, Self Esteem, Self Confidence
“Ricky Ricardo: Lucy, were you snooping?

Lucy Ricardo: Yes I was a bad girl and you can spank me tomorrow if there's anything left to spank!”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: New Neighbors
Tagged: Snooping, bad girl, spanking
“Ricky Ricardo: What do you want me to do, starve to death?

Lucy Ricardo: Would you, please?”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: The Freezer
Tagged: starve to death, argument
“I'm going to get rid of this fat if I have to chop it off with a cleaver.”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: The Diet
Tagged: Fat shaming, fad diets
“Lucy Ricardo: Hello, I'm looking for Risky Riskardo.

Ricky Ricardo: Oh, well I'm Ricky Ricardo.

Lucy Ricardo: Oh nice to meet you, do you know where I can find Risky Riskardo?”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: The Audition
Tagged: Mispronunciations
“Ricky Ricardo: I need someone with 'sperience.

Lucy Ricardo: Well I've had 'sperience.”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: The Freezer
Tagged: ESL, accents
“This is Madam Ethel Mertzola. She'll be our medium tonight. She's psychopathic.”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: The Séance
Tagged: seance, Psychic, psychopathic, Malapropisms
“Here I am with all this talent bottled up inside of me and you're always sitting on the cork.”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: The Ballet
Tagged: Talent, talent show
“Lucy Ricardo: Y'know, I've been thinking about shows like Burns and Allen. George Burns uses his wife on the show. Why don't you?

Ricky Ricardo: I'd love to! Do you think she would leave George?”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: The Audition
Tagged: Burns and Allen, George Burns, Gracie Burns, Radio Show
“Arthur: But... You're a woman.

Lucy Ricardo: Yes, my husband likes me that way.”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: The Young Fans
Tagged: Woman, husband
“Don't ask questions, just get a knife and a fork and a bottle of ketchup and follow me to the biggest barbecue in the whole world.”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: The Freezer
Tagged: Ketchup, Barbecue
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
— Lucille Ball, Love, Lucy
Tagged: Single, Womanhood, Independence, Love Yourself
“Think harder, we can be nastier than that.”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: Breaking the Lease
Tagged: nasty woman, think harder
“Ricky Ricardo: Lucy, you remember that old saying, 'birds of a feather smell the same'?

Lucy Ricardo: You mean 'a rose by any other name flocks together'?

Ricky Ricardo: [Thinks a moment] Yeah.”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: The Gossip
Tagged: Cliches, Confusion
“Mr. Merriweather: My horoscope says no more business after noon today.

Lucy Ricardo: Oh, you follow horoscopes?

Mr. Merriweather: Yes! I'm Scorpio.

Lucy Ricardo: I'm Taurus.

Ricky Ricardo: I'm cooked.”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: The Séance
Tagged: Horoscopes, Scorpio, Taurus
“Ricky Ricardo: Listen, Professor, can you play that thin'?

Lucy Ricardo: What thin?

Ricky Ricardo: Never mind makin' fun of my English.

Lucy Ricardo: That's English?”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: The Audition
Tagged: spanish, english, accents
“Ricky Ricardo: I was clearing out the desk and I found this.

Lucy Ricardo: Why, it's our marriage license.

Ricky Ricardo: Yeah.

Lucy Ricardo: Well, what's the matter? Don't tell me it's expired!”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: The Marriage License
Tagged: marriage license, expired
“Ricky Ricardo: [discussing operetta Lucy wrote, but does not know she wrote it] Who wrote this thing, anyway?

Lucy Ricardo: Who wrote it? Have you ever heard of Victor Herbert?

Ricky Ricardo: Yeah.

Lucy Ricardo: Well all right, then.”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 2: The Operetta
Tagged: operetta, victor herbert
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.”
— Lucille Ball, 53 Inspiring Self-Esteem and Self-Love Quotes
Tagged: Selfie Captions, Love Yourself, Selfie Captions
“Lucy Ricardo: I'm living on borrowed time. It was only by a very clever ruse that I managed to escape from their apartment.

Police Sergeant: What was that?

Lucy Ricardo: I pretended to be a chair.

Police Sergeant: I don't think the police can help you madam, why don't you call an upholsterer?”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: New Neighbors
Tagged: Paranoia, borrowed time
“Lucy Ricardo: Now, what about boys your own age?

Peggy: Oh, they're all so icky.

Lucy Ricardo: They're icky, huh?

Peggy: Yeah. Except Arthur... Arthur Morton. He's wonderful. He's got curly hair, big, sad eyes, and floppy ears. He looks like Gregory Peck.

Lucy Ricardo: Sounds more like Lassie!”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: The Young Fans
Tagged: Gregory Peck, Lassie, Floppy Ears, icky
“Lucy Ricardo: You might be going through life with the wrong name. Hey, I better figure out the right one for you! Maybe if you're something besides Five, it'll help our vibration.

Ricky Ricardo: Lucy!

Lucy Ricardo: What?

Ricky Ricardo: Don't you like the way I vibrate?”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: The Séance
Tagged: Wrong Name, vibration
“Now, Ricky, listen to me, please, listen to me! That's what they asked me to do at the radio program in order to win that thousand dollars, and I came home and I tried to do it, and I don't know who that first man was, but I was never married to him, and this is the man from the program, and he's my real first husband, but I was never married to him either, and that's the truth, so help me!”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: The Quiz Show
Tagged: Marriage, false marriage, game show
“Jean Valijean Raymand: Oh, but you don't understand, madame! The Apache dance is a dance of amour. One must warm up to it.

Lucy Ricardo: Yeah, well I think you started warming up on the way over here!

Jean Valijean Raymand: I can't help it. I can't help that there's a pounding in my heart.

Lucy Ricardo: You don't watch out, there'll be a pounding on your head!”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: The Adagio
Tagged: Love, apache, dance, Threats
“Lucy Ricardo: Fred, you've given me an idea. I'm going to give Ricky scalp treatments. And they'll be so drastic he'll be glad to forget the whole thing.

Fred Mertz: It won't work...

Lucy Ricardo: Why not?

Fred Mertz: Nothing has ever been invented that a man won't try if he thinks he can get his hair back.

Lucy Ricardo: Oh, yeah? Well, you haven't heard of the 'Lucy Ricardo Torture System of Hair Restoring.'”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: Ricky Thinks He is Going Bald
Tagged: hair restoration, scalp treatments, Balding
“Ricky Ricardo: Excuse me, Mrs. Shakespeare, but would you mind telling me what this is all about?

Lucy Ricardo: Well, you see, all the women's clubs in town are having a big play-writing contest.

Ricky Ricardo: I knew it, I knew it. This had to do with the Wednesday Afternoon Fang and Claw Society.

Lucy Ricardo: It's the Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League. Gee, just think, if our play wins I just might become a big, famous playwright. I might become another Tennessee Ernie.

Ricky Ricardo: That's Tennessee Williams.

Lucy Ricardo: Oh.”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: Lucy Writes a Play
Tagged: play-writing, shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Tennessee Ernie Ford
“Lucy Ricardo: They're going to kill us.

Police Sergeant: Why would they do that?

Lucy Ricardo: So they can assume our identities and blow up the capitol.

Police Sergeant: This is serious.

Lucy Ricardo: You're darned right it is!
These people are spies from a foreign enemy agent.

Police Sergeant: What are their names?

Lucy Ricardo: O'Brien!

Police Sergeant: Lady, have you been nipping the cooking sherry?”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: New Neighbors
Tagged: Drunk, Spies, Paranoia
“Lucy Ricardo: Well it all started when I was a little girl. I was riding around on the streetcar and I looked up and there was a box and it said take one. So I took one.

Dr. Tom Robinson: Well there was nothing wrong with that.

Lucy Ricardo: Oh yes there waaaas. From then on, I took anything that came into my pretty hands, even though it didn't say take one. I took a bright new penny, I took a bicycle, I took a little boy!

Dr. Tom Robinson: You took a little boy?

Lucy Ricardo: Yeah, but my mother made me give him back!”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: The Marriage License
Tagged: Kleptomania, Kidnapping
“Lucy Ricardo: Ricky, wait a minute, let's not watch television tonight.

Ricky Ricardo, Ethel Mertz, Fred Mertz: [Ricky, Fred, and Ethel shout in unison] Not watch television!

Ricky Ricardo: What else is there to do?

Lucy Ricardo: Well, whatever happened to that game we used to play before television was invented? It was called 'conversation.'

Ethel Mertz: Oh, yeah. How'd that go?

Lucy Ricardo: You know, the four of us used to just sit around all evening and talk. Nothing so unusual about it. In millions of homes all over the country people were having the same kinds of conversations we were having.

Fred Mertz: Yeah, that's why television was invented!”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: Lucy Gets Ricky on the Radio
Tagged: Conversation, TV, TV addiction
“Well, I'm your Vitavigavegivat Girl. Are you tired, run down, listless? Do you pop out at parties? Are you unpoopular? [pause] Well, are you? The answer to all your problems is in this little ol' bottle, Vitameatavegamin. [Checks the bottle label] That's it. Vitameatavegamin contains vitamins, meat, megetables and vinerals. So why don't you join the thousands of happy peppy people and get a great big bottle of Vitaveatyvemeanyminimoe. I'll tell you what you have to do. You have to take a whole tablespoonful after every meal. It's so tasty too. It's just like candy. [Takes a bit of time, if not too much, trying to sample the liquid.] Finally... [slurred speech] So everybody get a bottle of... [pointing at the bottle] This stuff.”
— Lucy Ricardo, I Love Lucy, Season 1: The Freezer
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