Top 66 Desi's Quotes
#1. Thursday, the-night-of-the-date, comes and goes, leaving a school bus tire track across Desi's heart, fear abrading her mind until she can think of nothing except what the future will be like if something develops between her dad and Libby.
Sara Stark
#2. Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.
Desi Arnaz
#3. 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.
Desi Arnaz
#4. Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
Desi Arnaz
#5. Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.
Desi Arnaz
#6. One of the things I want to do with 'Desi Rascals' is go a bit deeper into the characters and their family lives and have a bit more heart and a bit more inter-generational story-telling, so it's not all about young people.
Gurinder Chadha
#7. At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy.
Desi Arnaz
#8. 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
#9. Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes.
Desi Arnaz
#10. I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
Lucille Ball
#11. 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
#12. No one could ever argue with me about people in show business being kind of nice.
Desi Arnaz
#13. About once every six months someone notifies me that Lucy and Desi Arnaz are separating.
Hedda Hopper
#14. I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw so much of my own childhood there.
Ben Stiller
#15. Real intellectuals like to escape once in a while from their world of intellect.
Desi Arnaz
#16. I could have stayed home and been kept by my wife.
Desi Arnaz
#17. One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.
Desi Arnaz
#18. TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children.
Lucille Ball
#19. 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
#20. I was an only child, but I did have a hell of a lot of cousins.
Desi Arnaz
#21. The way the Army does things is sometimes a little strange.
Desi Arnaz
#22. Desi, babe. Still playing your little games, I see. Now why don't you be a good Daimon and show yourself to me? (Kyrian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#23. A bead of cold sweat dangled on my fingertip before dripping onto the doorbell. What if I got electrocuted from my wet fingers? I would die literally inches from my first high school party. And everyone would be like, oh, poor thing was so nervous, what a tragedy. Death by sweat.
Lindsey Leavitt
#24. Mother came to New York to keep house for me.
Desi Arnaz
#25. I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.
Vijender Singh
#26. By the time I finish with the two of you, you will be begging me to let you die. (Desiderius) Desi dearest, I have never begged a day in my life, and the sun will surely splinter before I ever plead for anything from the likes of you. (Kyrian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#27. Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.
Desi Arnaz
#28. 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
#29. I was the only male of the Arnaz family in my generation.
Desi Arnaz
#30. If you don't know what to do, don't do anything.
Desi Arnaz
#31. When I get in the sun I get very tanned. You can't tell me from the native fishermen in Hawaii or Mexico.
Desi Arnaz
#32. 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.
Desi Arnaz
#33. When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us.
Desi Arnaz
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. I didn't know anything about acting, much less about acting in a comedy.
Desi Arnaz
#37. I learned a lot from Xavier Cugat.
Desi Arnaz
#38. The straw hat is the typical hat Cubans use. It's cool and keeps the sun away from your face.
Desi Arnaz
#39. Since I was very young I have always worked hard at whatever I have had to do.
Desi Arnaz
#40. Desi has loved me ever since the lie, I know he pictures making love to me, how gentle and reassuring he would be as he plunged into me, stroking my hair. I know he pictures me crying softly as I give myself to him.
Gillian Flynn
#41. You'd be my pariah, and I'd love you no matter what, and I'd shield you from everything, Desi said.
Gillian Flynn
#42. The custom of my grandfather's day is still going strong in Latin America. American girls do not seem to understand it.
Desi Arnaz
#43. In 1934 there were very few Cubans in Miami.
Desi Arnaz
#44. It's really amazing that two people from such different backgrounds and geographical origins ever got together. That was perhaps part of the attraction.
Desi Arnaz
#45. That's why I should drive the bulldozer," Desi said. "Brains, beauty, and pizza.
Nora Olsen
#47. Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.
Desi Arnaz
#48. LUCY and Desi. Lucy and Ricky. As far as the public knew, the private life of the Arnazes closely resembled that of the Ricardos on the TV screen; a camera crew just dropped by once a week to film a half hour of slapstick and tender kisses.
Warren G. Harris
#49. What a writer needs?
A friend. A friend that'll accompany beside solitude itself.
Desi Puspitasari
#51. When you give yourself to me, completely, I will bite you. Until then, my love, I will only nibble on you."~Cole
Tina Carreiro
#53. Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination.
Desi Puspitasari
#54. Lucy and I would love furiously and fight furiously.
Desi Arnaz
#55. So all you desi boys and girls, dark skin or not, you are beautiful just the way you are. No need to change your skin to be fair and white. And no need to adapt to one's culture to fit in. If you feel uncomfortable to do what other people are doing, then don't do it!
Simi Sunny
#56. The thing I remember about New York was how little I felt. I arrived with one small bag and $15.
Desi Arnaz
#57. It was easy for viewers to identify with our show. The characters were believable.
Desi Arnaz
#58. I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.
Desi Arnaz
#59. I received my Greetings from Uncle Sam in May 1943. I applied for the Air Force.
Desi Arnaz
#60. An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.
Desi Arnaz
#61. I don't think anyone can tell you what it is that makes you a star.
Desi Arnaz
#62. I went to high school with Al Capone.
Desi Arnaz
#63. I'll be interested to hear what the swine has to say for himself, he says. Desi rarely says jackfuck or shitbag; he says swine, which sounds more poisonous on his lips.
Gillian Flynn
#64. An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.
Desi Arnaz
#65. Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.
Desi Arnaz
#66. No one could ever push you to write or become a writer, except yourself.
Desi Puspitasari
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