Carroll O'Connor Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Not all celebrities are dunces. — 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. — 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? — Carroll O'Connor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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