List of Desi Arnaz Quotes

The Way The Army Does Things Is Sometimes A Little Strange.

Mother Came To New York To Keep House For Me.

I Learned A Lot From Xavier Cugat.

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 Straw Hat Is The Typical Hat Cubans Use. It's Cool And Keeps The Sun Away From Your Face.

I Received My Greetings From Uncle Sam In May 1943. I Applied For The Air Force.

I Was The Only Male Of The Arnaz Family In My Generation.

I Was An Only Child, But I Did Have A Hell Of A Lot Of Cousins.

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.

Al Jolson Was One Of The Greatest Entertainers Who Ever Lived.

Joe Mccarthy And His Senate Hearings Were Like Witch-hunts.

The Thing I Remember About New York Was How Little I Felt. I Arrived With One Small Bag And $15.

When I Get In The Sun I Get Very Tanned. You Can't Tell Me From The Native Fishermen In Hawaii Or Mexico.

It Was Easy For Viewers To Identify With Our Show. The Characters Were Believable.

No One Could Ever Argue With Me About People In Show Business Being Kind Of Nice.

I Didn't Know Anything About Acting, Much Less About Acting In A Comedy.

The Custom Of My Grandfather's Day Is Still Going Strong In Latin America. American Girls Do Not Seem To Understand It.

In 1934 There Were Very Few Cubans In Miami.

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.

I Learned A Lot In Those First Years In Miami, While Struggling Just For Survival, By Observing My Father's Fortitude.

Drinking Intensifies All Your Pressures And Your Needs.

I Could Have Stayed Home And Been Kept By My Wife.

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.

An Audience Is So Important. I Would Never Have Had The Guts To Dub In That Big A Laugh.