Carroll O'Connor Quotes

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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…
• 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.…
• 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…
• It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment.
• Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.
• I'm lucky. Lord, I'm lucky.
• Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.
• Even a true artist does not always produce art.
• It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.
• Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.
• Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
• Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
• Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
• Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.
• I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.
• I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
• I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.
• In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
• It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.
• Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.

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