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It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment.

Topics: Struggle, Character, Giving, Return To Me

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I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.

Topics: Hate, Stupid, Pride

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

Topics: Funny, Hater, Fool, Jealous Hater, My Haters

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

Topics: Character, Men, People, President Nixon

Get between your kid and drugs, any way you can, if you want to save the kid's life.

Topics: Kids, Drug, Want

The wages of pedantry is pain.

Topics: Pain, Wages, Pedantry

My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.

Topics: Laughter, Joy, Hollywood, Professional Life

I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?

Topics: Depressing, Years, Voice

People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.

source: - "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Girl, Daughter, Fathers Day, Rich Girl

Nothing but the heart can change the heart.

Topics: Heart

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

Topics: Brother, Business, Physicians, Undisciplined

We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.

Topics: Night, Needs, Firsts

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

Topics: Men, Half, Reputation

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.

Topics: Business, Years, Numbers, Lasting Love, Residual

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.

Topics: Hero, People, Millions

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

Topics: Satire, Hated, Shows, Savvy, Show Biz

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

Topics: Artist, Enemy, Reviewers, Scientism

I'm lucky. Lord, I'm lucky.

Topics: Lucky, Lord

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

Topics: Running, Directors

It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.

Topics: Depression, Made, Inevitable

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

Topics: Running, Business, People, Wicked Ways

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

Topics: Art, Creativity, Creative, Positive Thoughts, True Artists

It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.

Topics: Entertainment, Seems, Values

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

Topics: Rewards, Given, Staggering

Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.

Topics: Character, Doors, Actors

My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?

Topics: Should

Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.

Topics: Artist, Talent, Given, God Given Talents

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

Topics: Business, Real, Flight, Childlike

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.

Topics: Jobs, Years, Long

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

Topics: Flattery, Theater, Sheer

Not all celebrities are dunces.

Topics: Dunces

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