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