52 Quotes by Desi Arnaz

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

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us.

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

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.

Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.

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.

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.