Carroll O'Connor Quotes
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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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Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
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Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.
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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 seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.
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Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.
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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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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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Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.
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Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.
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My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.
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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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Nothing but the heart can change the heart.
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Not all celebrities are dunces.
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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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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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The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.
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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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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'm lucky. Lord, I'm lucky.
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Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
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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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My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?
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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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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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In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
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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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Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
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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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