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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The thing I remember about New York was how little I felt. I arrived with one small bag and $15.

I went to high school with Al Capone.

Lucy is such a perfectionist.

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.

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

Lucy and I would love furiously and fight furiously.

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

I don't think anyone can tell you what it is that makes you a star.

I learned a lot from Xavier Cugat.

Since I was very young I have always worked hard at whatever I have had to do.

The way the Army does things is sometimes a little strange.

At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy.

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

Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes.

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.

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

Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.

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.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

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

One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.

Its really amazing that two people from such different backgrounds and geographical origins ever got together. That was perhaps part of the attraction.

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.

Ever since I was really really little, I was just singing all the time. Like one of my favorite games when I was little would be to just have one of my sisters pick a title, and I would impromptu create that song.

The black comedians meeting? Oh yeah, we hold one every year at Eddie Murphy's house.

When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I look at is the checking account report from the day before. I love checking accounts. I dream about them.

Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.

I come from Venezuela, from the independent film arena, and you work with one camera.

I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.

The danger facing us comes not from lack of resources, but from people who insist that we have run out of resources. If you embrace their idea of a world where there is only so much to go around, then you are endorsing a program of genocide and a war of all against all.

His broken heart was unfeeling like shattered glass in an acid bath.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.

I'm a very caring person.

Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

I would say that the things that have really left a mark on me have more to do with my family and my children's lives rather than a film role.

I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century.

Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably have a more open mind than most people.

A good title is the title of a successful book.