Quotes by Desi Arnaz - Page 1

Lucy is such a perfectionist.
Desi Arnaz / Musician
Lucy
Perfectionist
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I learned a lot from Xavier Cugat.
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I went to high school with Al Capone.
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Capone
High School
School High School High
Al
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Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes.
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Bats
Mistakes
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In 1934 there were very few Cubans in Miami.
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Cuban
Miami
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Mother came to New York to keep house for me.
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New York
House
Mother
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If you don't know what to do, don't do anything.
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Ifs
Knows
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I could have stayed home and been kept by my wife.
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Home
My Wife
Wife
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Lucy and I would love furiously and fight furiously.
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Lucy
Love Fight Would
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Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.
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Drinking
Needs
Pressure
Pressures
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I was the only male of the Arnaz family in my generation.
Desi Arnaz / Musician
Generations
Males
My Generation
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Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.
Desi Arnaz / Musician
Hearing
Joe Mccarthy
Senate
Witch
Joe
Mccarthy
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The way the Army does things is sometimes a little strange.
Desi Arnaz / Musician
Army
Doe
Littles
Strange
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Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.
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Good
Easy
Good Things
Pitfalls
Things
Come
Lined
Road
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Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.
Desi Arnaz / Musician
Als
Entertainers
Al
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I was an only child, but I did have a hell of a lot of cousins.
Desi Arnaz / Musician
Children
Cousin
Only Child
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I don't think anyone can tell you what it is that makes you a star.
Desi Arnaz / Musician
Stars
Thinking
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I didn't know anything about acting, much less about acting in a comedy.
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Acting
Comedy
Knows
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Since I was very young I have always worked hard at whatever I have had to do.
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Hard
Young
Since
Whatever
Worked
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I received my Greetings from Uncle Sam in May 1943. I applied for the Air Force.
Desi Arnaz / Musician
Uncles
Air
Force
May
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Real intellectuals like to escape once in a while from their world of intellect.
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Intellect
Real
World
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No one could ever argue with me about people in show business being kind of nice.
Desi Arnaz / Musician
Be Kind
Nice
People
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It was easy for viewers to identify with our show. The characters were believable.
Desi Arnaz / Musician
Character
Easy
Shows
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One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.
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Comedy
Jokes
Problem
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An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.
Desi Arnaz / Musician
Audience
Bigs
Guts
Important
Laughing
Dub
Laugh
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The straw hat is the typical hat Cubans use. It's cool and keeps the sun away from your face.
Desi Arnaz / Musician
Faces
Typical
Use
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Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.
Desi Arnaz / Musician
Careers
Doing Me
Helping
Accent
Me Doing Everyone
Except
Seemed
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An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.
Desi Arnaz / Musician
Actors
Comedy
Drama
Vice Versa
Vices
Good Drama Comedy
Necessarily
Versa
Vice
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The thing I remember about New York was how little I felt. I arrived with one small bag and $15.
Desi Arnaz / Musician
New York
Bags
Littles
Arrived
Bag
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Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
Desi Arnaz / Musician
Failure
Terrible
Fail
Terrible Thing
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When I get in the sun I get very tanned. You can't tell me from the native fishermen in Hawaii or Mexico.
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Hawaii
Mexico
Sun
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At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy.
Desi Arnaz / Musician
Comedy
Lucy
Slapstick
Too Much
Criticized
Mild
Neither
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I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.
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Father
Fortitude
Miami
Observing
Struggle
Survival
Years
Struggling
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The custom of my grandfather's day is still going strong in Latin America. American girls do not seem to understand it.
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Girl
America
Latin
Strong
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When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us.
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Odds
Two Weeks
Astronomical
Bets
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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 / Musician
America
Blow
Latin
Latin America
Temper
Pretty
Blows
Fast
Goes
Hear
Ulcer
Maybe
Seldom
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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 / Musician
Enough
Fortunate
Happens
Lifetime
Lucy
Once In A Lifetime
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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 / Musician
Moving On
Cameras
Difficult
Moved On
Moving
Smooth
Camera
Floors
Studio
Wooden
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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.
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Country
Great Country
Laughing
People
American People
Great People Laugh
Great Country People
Laugh
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The Spanish and Cuban people have the same kind of wakes the Irish do. They go on for two or three days and drink a lot of booze and eat a lot of food.
Desi Arnaz / Musician
People
Three
Two
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It's really amazing that two people from such different backgrounds and geographical origins ever got together. That was perhaps part of the attraction.
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People
Together
Two
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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.
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Lucille
Television Show
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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 / Musician
Motivational
Doe
Real
Setting
Smallest
Flaw
Prop
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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.
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Elements
Successful
Television
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