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Home›Authors›Carroll O'Connor
American - Actor August 2, 1924 - June 21, 2001American - Actor - 8/2/1924 - 6/21/2001
Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.Carroll O'Connor
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PicturesReputationDirected
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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DoorCharacter ActorOffers
Even a true artist does not always produce art.Carroll O'Connor
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True ArtistProduce
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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PrideStupidRace
Not all celebrities are dunces.Carroll O'Connor
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Celebrities
Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.Carroll O'Connor
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NationsFoolsHaters
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.Carroll O'Connor
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ConventionalSatireSavvy
In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.Carroll O'Connor
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PersonsRewardsCapitalist
Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.Carroll O'Connor
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ArchieHeroMillions Of People
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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LovingFriendshipsLasting
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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WickedVulgarObscene
I'm lucky. Lord, I'm lucky. - Carroll O'Connor
I'm lucky. Lord, I'm lucky.Carroll O'Connor
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LordLucky
Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.Carroll O'Connor
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TalentArtistsGift
All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.Carroll O'Connor
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Intellectual
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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FoolGood ManA Good Man
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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ReportersFaithfully
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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UndisciplinedWelcomeBrothers
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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HarshRefugeChildlike
It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.Carroll O'Connor
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Everything ElseEntertainmentExcites
My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?Carroll O'Connor
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Irish
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.Carroll O'Connor
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FlatterySheer
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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FinishingArchieEnjoyed
The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.Carroll O'Connor
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ArtistEnemyUnlike
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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Same ThingsYears Ago
My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.Carroll O'Connor
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FilledLaughterProfessional Life
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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Directors
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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SufferedInevitableDepression
The wages of pedantry is pain.Carroll O'Connor
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