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

"Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs."

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

"Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes."

"Lucy and I would love furiously and fight furiously."

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

"I went to high school with Al Capone."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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