Carroll O'Connor famous quotes

It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment.
-- Carroll O'Connor

#Struggle #Character #Giving

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

#Hate #Stupid #Pride

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

#Funny #Hater #Fool

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

#Character #Men #People

Get between your kid and drugs, any way you can, if you want to save the kid's life.
-- Carroll O'Connor

#Kids #Drug #Want

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

#Pain #Wages #Pedantry

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

#Laughter #Joy #Hollywood

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

#Depressing #Years #Voice

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.
-- Carroll O'Connor

#Girl #Daughter #Fathers Day

Nothing but the heart can change the heart.
-- Carroll O'Connor

#Heart

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

#Brother #Business #Physicians

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

#Night #Needs #Firsts

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

#Men #Half #Reputation

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

#Business #Years #Numbers

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

#Hero #People #Millions

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

#Satire #Hated #Shows

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

#Artist #Enemy #Reviewers

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

#Lucky #Lord

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

#Running #Directors

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

#Depression #Made #Inevitable

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

#Running #Business #People

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

#Art #Creativity #Creative

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

#Entertainment #Seems #Values

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

#Rewards #Given #Staggering

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

#Character #Doors #Actors

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

#Should

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

#Artist #Talent #Given

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

#Business #Real #Flight

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

#Jobs #Years #Long

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

#Flattery #Theater #Sheer

Not all celebrities are dunces.
-- Carroll O'Connor

#Dunces