Famous Lucy And Ethel Quotes

It's imposible to even imagine Lucy Ricardo without Ethel Mertz, and because of that, this dynamic duo set the bar for future female friendships on TV. Consider Laverne and Shirley, Kate and Allie, Mar and Rhoda, Wilma and Betty, and Cagney and Lacey - where would they have been without Lucy and Ethel. ~ Elisabeth Edwards

My ultimate dream is to become a famous star because I love to sing. ~ Lucy Hale

Of course I loved 'I Love Lucy' and saw every episode over and over again. I found it heartbreaking that Ricky got to be famous and have an exciting life at the Tropicana while Lucy was stuck in that terrible apartment with the Mertzes. ~ Bruce Eric Kaplan

[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge. ~ Ethel Merman

I am somebody cause God don't make no junk ~ Ethel Waters

Your power comes from the songs. ~ Ethel Wilson

We all must pay the price to be our genuine selves. ~ Ethel Russell

God doesn't make junk ~ Ethel Waters

The self-made man is often proud of a poor job. ~ Ethel Mumford

I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It's incredible - Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming her child Ethel Merman, Jr., was, to me, one of the coolest feminist things. ~ Beth Ditto

I am an isolationist. ~ Ethel Waters

I had a probing mind and an elephant memory. ~ Ethel Waters

I have only one offering to give, a broken heart. ~ Ethel Lilian Voynich

Ignorance, foolishness, and poverty-we owned this by our birth. ~ Ethel Waters

Most of us are degraded in one way or another. ~ Ethel Lilian Voynich

Everything's coming up roses - for me. ~ Ethel Merman

In this month he had been too happy to sin much ~ Ethel Lilian Voynich

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. ~ Ethel Barrett

The Doctor's Motto: Have patients. ~ Ethel Mumford

Billy felt he would burst. He knew that feeling well. But never in a good way. Until now. ~ Ethel Rohan

I have always been psychic. The walls of any room I walk into talk to me. ~ Ethel Waters

I wasn't one to usually show off Lucy and Ethel because I was self-conscious of them, but money was money. ~ Mariana Zapata

Imagination makes cowards of us all. ~ Ethel Mumford

Why did it take tragedy to bring out the best in us? And why was that state of grace so fleeting? ~ Ethel Rohan

We always understood each other without many words, even when we were little things. ~ Ethel Lilian Voynich

We are all fit for better things than we ever do ~ Ethel Lilian Voynich

Only those who are being burned know what fire is like. ~ Ethel Waters

What we once fling away never comes again to us. ~ Ethel M. Dell

The best time to make friends is
before you need them. ~ Ethel Barrymore

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance. ~ Ethel Waters

In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me. ~ Ethel Merman

Crawling about the floor like half-dead November flies is one thing, and dancing reels another. ~ Ethel Smyth

It matters just as much what to do, whether people hate you or love you ~ Ethel Lilian Voynich

We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available. ~ Ethel Waters

None of the seven is really good, for the excellent reason that Australian children never are. ~ Ethel Turner

I never was a child. ~ Ethel Waters

We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out. ~ Ethel Waters

The tragedy in the lives of the people is in what does not happen, rather than in what does happen -in all they do not realise.

Ethel Carnie -Miss Nobody ~ Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

I Got Rhythm really put me on the map. ~ Ethel Merman

The doors of Opportunity are marked 'Push' and 'Pull'. ~ Ethel Mumford

You don't give up on democracy every time you lose a vote, Ethel said crisply. ~ Ken Follett

Anarchism has but one infallible, unchangeable motto, "Freedom." Freedom to discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully." - Lucy Parsons ~ Lucy Parsons

Sometimes you've just got to take a chance. Allow yourself to be vulnerable. ~ Lucy Diamond

I could always open shows, perform through the middle, and close shows. ~ Ethel Waters

Introspection! I hate it! ~ Ethel Kennedy

The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground. ~ Ethel Waters

They kill me because they are afraid of me; and what more can any man's heart desire? ~ Ethel Lilian Voynich

No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer. ~ Ethel Waters

Better a live doggerel than a dead sonnet. ~ Ethel Mumford

The hand of the Lord is heavy. ~ Ethel Lilian Voynich

If you take passionate interest in a subject, it is hard not to believe yourself specially equipped for it. ~ Ethel Smyth

So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last. ~ Ethel Kennedy

Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door. ~ Ethel M. Dell

The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization. ~ Ethel Smyth

Music, in the past few years ... anything singable or understandable is square. ~ Ethel Merman

I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct. ~ Ethel M. Dell

The worst thing about cynicism is its truth. ~ Ethel Mumford

Life would be unendurable without quarrels. A good quarrel is the salt of the earth; it's better than a variety show! ~ Ethel Lilian Voynich

Contentment: The smother of invention. ~ Ethel Mumford

A stone in the path may have the best intentions, but it must be kicked out of the path, for all that. ~ Ethel Lilian Voynich

Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind. ~ Ethel Percy Andrus

Deep, hearty, clean and compassionate laughter is vitamin-tastic fuel for the soul. ~ Ethel Russell-Ajisomo

I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own. ~ Ethel Waters

My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife. ~ Ethel Waters

Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them. ~ Ethel Merman

Only a mother's heart can be
Patient enough for such as he. ~ Ethel Lynn Beers

I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano. ~ Ethel Merman

I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow. ~ Ethel Waters

I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time. ~ Ethel Merman

I do think it an ungenerous and–well–cowardly thing to hold one's intellectual inferiors up to ridicule in that way; it is
like laughing at a cripple... ~ Ethel Lilian Voynich

You gotta have a gimmick. ~ Ethel Merman

I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough. ~ Ethel Waters

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice. ~ Ethel Merman

Finding out with Ranger is a whole different deal than finding out with Lula. Lula and I are Lucy Ricardo and Ethel Mertz. Ranger is Batman. ~ Janet Evanovich

I don't want to be famous for being famous. ~ Kelli O'Hara

If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely. ~ Ethel Waters

Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died. ~ Ethel Waters

The bad principle is that any man should hold over another the power to bind and loose. It's a false relationship to stand in towards one's fellows ~ Ethel Lilian Voynich

Be yourself
it's the one thing you can do better than anyone else. ~ Ethel Merman

My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be. ~ Ethel Merman

There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals. ~ Ethel Waters

There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business. ~ Ethel Waters

Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart. ~ Ethel Merman

If you didn't sit with your head in the clouds so perpetually you wouldn't get so many shocks. ~ Ethel M. Dell

I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old. ~ Ethel Merman

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again. ~ Ethel Waters

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own. ~ Ethel Merman

You'll never prove you're too good for a job by not doing your best. ~ Ethel Merman

I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame. ~ Ethel Merman

When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers. ~ Ethel Waters

I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty. ~ Ethel Waters

I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family. ~ Ethel Waters

Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced. ~ Ethel Merman

We are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves. ~ Ethel M. Dell

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception. ~ Van Morrison

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news. ~ Ethel Waters

I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals. ~ Ethel Merman

What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses. ~ Ethel Waters

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever. ~ Ethel Waters

Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels. ~ Ethel Waters