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Desi Arnaz
American
Actor
About the author
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,
American
Actor
#Motivation
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,
American
Actor
#People
#Ability
#American
#Country
An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.
Desi Arnaz,
American
Actor
#Comedy
#Vice
#Actor
#Drama
An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.
Desi Arnaz,
American
Actor
At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy.
Desi Arnaz,
American
Actor
#Comedy
Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.
Desi Arnaz,
American
Actor
#Needs
#Drinking
Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.
Desi Arnaz,
American
Actor
When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us.
Desi Arnaz,
American
Actor
#Country
I went to high school with Al Capone.
Desi Arnaz,
American
Actor
#School
I learned a lot from Xavier Cugat.
Desi Arnaz,
American
Actor
Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.
Desi Arnaz,
American
Actor
#Senate
Lucy and I would love furiously and fight furiously.
Desi Arnaz,
American
Actor
#Love
#Fight
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,
American
Actor
I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.
Desi Arnaz,
American
Actor
#Years
#First
#Survival
#Father
Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes.
Desi Arnaz,
American
Actor
#Mistakes
One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.
Desi Arnaz,
American
Actor
#Problems
#Comedy
#Jokes
Since I was very young I have always worked hard at whatever I have had to do.
Desi Arnaz,
American
Actor
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,
American
Actor
#Love
#Success
The way the Army does things is sometimes a little strange.
Desi Arnaz,
American
Actor
#Army
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,
American
Actor
#Love
#Television
#Name
Lucy is such a perfectionist.
Desi Arnaz,
American
Actor
The thing I remember about New York was how little I felt. I arrived with one small bag and $15.
Desi Arnaz,
American
Actor
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,
American
Actor
#Pretty
#America
#Temper
Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.
Desi Arnaz,
American
Actor
#Road
Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
Desi Arnaz,
American
Actor
#World
#Failure
#Business
Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.
Desi Arnaz,
American
Actor
#Career
I don't think anyone can tell you what it is that makes you a star.
Desi Arnaz,
American
Actor