Desi Arnaz Quotes

Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes.
Desi Arnaz

Mistakes, Nobody, Bats

Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.
Desi Arnaz

Good, Easy, Road

Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.
Desi Arnaz

Career, Everyone, Except

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.
Desi Arnaz

True, Single, Real

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.
Desi Arnaz

Great, Laugh, Country

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.
Desi Arnaz

Good, Comedy, Actor

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.
Desi Arnaz

Needs, Drinking, Pressures

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
Desi Arnaz

Business, Failure, Whole

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.
Desi Arnaz

Father, Learned, While

Lucy and I would love furiously and fight furiously.
Desi Arnaz

Love, Fight, Lucy

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.
Desi Arnaz

Down, Pretty, America

Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.
Desi Arnaz

Greatest, Lived, Al

An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.
Desi Arnaz

Important, Laugh, Big

At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy.
Desi Arnaz

Times, Comedy, Neither

I don't think anyone can tell you what it is that makes you a star.
Desi Arnaz

Tell, Makes, Anyone

I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille.
Desi Arnaz

Love, After, Her

I learned a lot from Xavier Cugat.
Desi Arnaz

I went to high school with Al Capone.
Desi Arnaz

School, High, Capone

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.
Desi Arnaz

Senate, Hearings, Joe

Lucy is such a perfectionist.
Desi Arnaz

Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.
Desi Arnaz

Moving, Around, Difficult

One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.
Desi Arnaz

Understand, Problems, Comedy

Since I was very young I have always worked hard at whatever I have had to do.
Desi Arnaz

Hard, Young, Whatever

The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all.
Desi Arnaz

Love, Success, Happen

The thing I remember about New York was how little I felt. I arrived with one small bag and $15.
Desi Arnaz

Remember, Small, Felt

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: March 2, 1917

Died: December 2, 1986

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