Desi Arnaz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Careers #Doing Me #Helping
An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.
-- Desi Arnaz

#Drama #Vices #Actors
I learned a lot from Xavier Cugat.
-- Desi Arnaz

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

#Stars #Thinking
I went to high school with Al Capone.
-- Desi Arnaz

#School #High School #Als
Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.
-- Desi Arnaz

#Hearing #Witch #Joe Mccarthy
Since I was very young I have always worked hard at whatever I have had to do.
-- Desi Arnaz

#Young
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

#Once In A Lifetime #Lifetime #Enough
The thing I remember about New York was how little I felt. I arrived with one small bag and $15.
-- Desi Arnaz

#New York #Bags #Littles
Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.
-- Desi Arnaz

#Drinking #Needs #Pressure
One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.
-- Desi Arnaz

#Comedy #Problem #Jokes
Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.
-- Desi Arnaz

#Pitfalls #Easy #Good Things
An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.
-- Desi Arnaz

#Laughing #Important #Bigs
Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.
-- Desi Arnaz

#Als #Entertainers
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

#Motivation #Real #Doe
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 On #Cameras #Smooth
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

#Country #People #Laughing
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

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

#Father #Struggle #Years
The way the Army does things is sometimes a little strange.
-- Desi Arnaz

#Army #Doe #Littles

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