Carroll O'Connor Quotes

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

By: Carroll O'Connor

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero... view

By: Carroll O'Connor

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

By: Carroll O'Connor

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

By: Carroll O'Connor

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... view

By: Carroll O'Connor

The wages of pedantry is pain... view

By: Carroll O'Connor

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

By: Carroll O'Connor

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

By: Carroll O'Connor

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

By: Carroll O'Connor

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

By: Carroll O'Connor

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

By: Carroll O'Connor

Not all celebrities are dunces... view

By: Carroll O'Connor

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools... view

By: Carroll O'Connor

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

By: Carroll O'Connor

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

By: Carroll O'Connor

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

By: Carroll O'Connor

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

By: Carroll O'Connor

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

By: Carroll O'Connor

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

By: Carroll O'Connor

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

By: Carroll O'Connor

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... view

By: Carroll O'Connor

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?.. view

By: Carroll O'Connor

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail... view

By: Carroll O'Connor

Even a true artist does not always produce art... view

By: Carroll O'Connor

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

By: Carroll O'Connor

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

By: Carroll O'Connor

All in the Family was intellectual.. view

By: Carroll O'Connor

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

By: Carroll O'Connor