Lucille Ball

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1911 age 0

   Born

2. 1935 age 24

   CreditTop Hat

3. 1989 age 77

   Died

• GCGino Corrado1 title
• VPVan Nest Polglase1 title
• CLCharles Lane1 title
• BPBarbara Pepper1 title
• EMEve McVeagh1 title
• DODennis O'Keefe1 title
• WHWilliam Hamilton1 title
• FAFred Astaire1 title
• JHJerry Hausner1 title
• LMLeonard Mudie1 title

• Spouse

  • GMGary Morton
  • DADesi Arnaz

• Children

  • LALucie Arnaz

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

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• Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

  Lucille Ball, CC BY-SA 4.0

• You see much more of your children once they leave home.

  Lucille Ball, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  Lucille Ball, CC BY-SA 4.0

• People with happy childhoods never overdo; they don't strive or exert themselves. They're moderate, pleasant, well liked, and good citizens. Society needs them. But the tremendous drive and dedication necessary to succeed in any field- not only show business- often seems to be rooted in a disturbed childhood. I wasn't an unloved or an unwanted child, but I was moved around a lot, and then death and cruel circumstances brought many painful separations.

  Lucille Ball, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  Lucille Ball, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Russell Markert, Lela Rogers, Ed Sedgwick - these were but a few of the experienced theater people who generously gave me a boost. I have a theory about the assists we get in life. Only rarely can we repay those people who helped us, but we can pass that help along to others. That's why, in 1958, I reactivated Lela's theater workshop with two dozen talented kids trying to get started in show business.

  Lucille Ball, CC BY-SA 4.0