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

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.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy.

A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.

I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.