Being the Ricardos (2021)

Nicole Kidman: Lucille Ball

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• Lucille Ball : I am the biggest asset in the portfolio of the Columbia Broadcasting System. The biggest asset in the portfolio of Philip Morris Tobacco, Westinghouse. I get paid a fortune to do exactly what I love doing. I work side by side with my husband, who's genuinely impressed by me. And all I have to do to keep it is kill every week for thirty-six weeks in a row. And then do it again the next year.

• Desi Arnaz : We've been through worse than this.

  Lucille Ball : We have?

  Desi Arnaz : No.

• Charles Koerner : I know how you're feeling right now. I've had to have this conversation a hundred times.

  Lucille Ball : I'm surprised because you're terrible at it.

• Lucille Ball : God damn it, Viv, most American women look like you, not me. They want to see themselves on television.

• Lucille Ball : Completely exasperated by this week's director, Donald Glass - to Ricky: I beat his face until it bleeds, does our insurance cover that?

  Desi Arnaz : I got the Platinum Plan

  Lucille Ball : Good job!