Carroll O'Connor Quotes

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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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  Hate, Stupid, Pride

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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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  Struggle, Character, Giving

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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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  Character, Men, People

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

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  Funny, Hater, Fool

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• The wages of pedantry is pain.

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  Pain, Wages, Pedantry

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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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  Kids, Drug, Want

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• Nothing but the heart can change the heart.

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  Heart

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• Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.

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  Hero, People, Millions

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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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  Jobs, Years, Long

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• Even a true artist does not always produce art.

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  Art, Creativity, Creative

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

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  Laughter, Joy, Hollywood

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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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  Depressing, Years, Voice

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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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  Brother, Business, Physicians

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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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  Girl, Daughter, Fathers Day

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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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  Night, Needs, Firsts

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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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  Business, Years, Numbers

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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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  Depression, Made, Inevitable

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

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  Entertainment, Seems, Values

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• Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

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  Men, Half, Reputation

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

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  Satire, Hated, Shows

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

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  Artist, Enemy, Reviewers

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

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  Rewards, Given, Staggering

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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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  Character, Doors, Actors

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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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  Flattery, Theater, Sheer

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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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  Running, Directors

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