Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III (Desi Arnaz) Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
-
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
-
All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
-
I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
-
We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
-
Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
-
I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.
-
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
-
The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
-
I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
-
I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
-
I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
-
You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
-
The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
-
I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
-
The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
-
I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
-
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
-
With 1,000-seater venues, rather than 5,000-seaters, there are richer opportunities for sucking the audience in.
-
I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
-
The mayor of New York is the chief executive of the city. It is a complex organization, and it requires the requisite skills to understand how to be the leader of the people and manage the government of N.Y.
-
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
-
Rebuilding a network is a slow, brick-by-brick process. It's not just creating a hit show - it's building shows to back up that hit show; it's creating an identity of success so that people want their shows on your network.
-
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.
