Actor

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

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

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

Lucy is such a perfectionist.

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.

Lucy and I would love furiously and fight furiously.

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

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

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.

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

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

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

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

I learned a lot from Xavier Cugat.

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

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

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

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.

I went to high school with Al Capone.