Desi Arnaz Quotes

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

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

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.

If you don't know what to do, don't do anything.

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

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

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

Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.

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.

Real intellectuals like to escape once in a while from their world of intellect.

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.

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

I could have stayed home and been kept by my wife.

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

It's really amazing that two people from such different backgrounds and geographical origins ever got together. That was perhaps part of the attraction.

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

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.

No one could ever argue with me about people in show business being kind of nice.

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

In 1934 there were very few Cubans in Miami.

When I get in the sun I get very tanned. You can't tell me from the native fishermen in Hawaii or Mexico.

The custom of my grandfather's day is still going strong in Latin America. American girls do not seem to understand it.

I received my Greetings from Uncle Sam in May 1943. I applied for the Air Force.

I was an only child, but I did have a hell of a lot of cousins.

I didn't know anything about acting, much less about acting in a comedy.