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Desi Arnaz

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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


#does #flaw #line #look #louse

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


— Desi Arnaz


#any #career #doing #everyone #except

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


— Desi Arnaz


#business #fail #failure #knows #most

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


#american #american people #country #great #great country

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


— Desi Arnaz


#also #comedy #drama #good #necessarily

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.


— Desi Arnaz


#intensifies #needs #pressures #your

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


— Desi Arnaz


#easy #good #good things #lined #pitfalls

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


— Desi Arnaz


#first #fortitude #i #just #learned

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


#blows #down #fast #goes #hear

Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes.


— Desi Arnaz


#make #mistakes #nobody






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Arnaz would make a guest appearance on the TV series Alice starring Linda Lavin and produced by I Love Lucy co-creators Madelyn Pugh (Madelyn Davis) and Bob Carroll Jr. The original Desilu company continued long after Arnaz's divorce from Ball both producing its own shows and providing production facilities to other producers.

He and Ball are generally credited as the inventors of the rerun in connection with the show. Desiderio Arnaz (better known as Desi Arnaz) (March 2 1917 – December 2 1986) was a Cuban-born American musician actor and television producer. While he gained international renown for leading a Latin music band the Desi Arnaz Orchestra he is best known for his role as Ricky Ricardo on the American TV series I Love Lucy starring with Lucille Ball to whom he was married at the time.

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