Carroll O'Connor quotes
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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.”
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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.”
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“Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.”
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“Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.”
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“Get between your kid and drugs, any way you can, if you want to save the kid's life.”
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“My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.”
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“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?”
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“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.”
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“Nothing but the heart can change the heart.”
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“Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.”
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“We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.”
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“Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.”
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“One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.”
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“Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.”
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“Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.”
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“The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.”
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“I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.”
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“It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.”
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“Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.”
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“Even a true artist does not always produce art.”
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“It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.”
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“In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.”
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“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.”
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“My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?”
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“Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.”
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“I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.”
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“I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.”
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“Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.”
-- Carroll O'Connor
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