Carroll O'Connor Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Carroll O'Connor:

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.
~Carroll O'Connor


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I'm lucky. Lord, I'm lucky.
~Carroll O'Connor


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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.
~Carroll O'Connor


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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.
~Carroll O'Connor


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Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.
~Carroll O'Connor


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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.
~Carroll O'Connor


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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?
~Carroll O'Connor


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/carroll-oconnor-quotes/#de69d955

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
~Carroll O'Connor


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/carroll-oconnor-quotes/#ce0a2b30

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
~Carroll O'Connor


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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.
~Carroll O'Connor


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/carroll-oconnor-quotes/#dd6a7277

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.
~Carroll O'Connor


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/carroll-oconnor-quotes/#7e812e3f

My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?
~Carroll O'Connor


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/carroll-oconnor-quotes/#b97d48bc

It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.
~Carroll O'Connor


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/carroll-oconnor-quotes/#cf3bff35

All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.
~Carroll O'Connor


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/carroll-oconnor-quotes/#98fd0538

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/carroll-oconnor-quotes/#97dadc23

Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.
~Carroll O'Connor


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/carroll-oconnor-quotes/#f3f5db8c

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


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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.
~Carroll O'Connor


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/carroll-oconnor-quotes/#d9531799

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.
~Carroll O'Connor


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/carroll-oconnor-quotes/#6a0b805f

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/carroll-oconnor-quotes/#5e9ba98e

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
~Carroll O'Connor


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/carroll-oconnor-quotes/#edba2d5d

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.
~Carroll O'Connor


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/carroll-oconnor-quotes/#9ea5b100

Not all celebrities are dunces.
~Carroll O'Connor


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/carroll-oconnor-quotes/#614be808

My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.
~Carroll O'Connor


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/carroll-oconnor-quotes/#32750352

Even a true artist does not always produce art.
~Carroll O'Connor


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/carroll-oconnor-quotes/#0af717a6

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/carroll-oconnor-quotes/#f5d26012

The wages of pedantry is pain.
~Carroll O'Connor


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/carroll-oconnor-quotes/#59fb8017

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/carroll-oconnor-quotes/#f03f7aff

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