Quotes from Carroll O'Connor


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

    Satire | Objects | Hated


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

    Life | Laughter | Joy


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

    Business | Flight | Childlike


    Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

    Men | Reputation | Fail


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

    Audience | Liked | Reporters


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

    Society | Create | Capital


    All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.

    Family | Art


    Not all celebrities are dunces.

    Dunces


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

    Business | Daily | Rumors


    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.

    Door | Again | Needed


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

    Business | Loving | Number


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

    Depression | Others | System


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

    Value | Above | Seems


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

    Lucky | Lord


    Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

    Control | Fools | Haters


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

    Business | Welcome | Brothers


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

    Enemy | Artist | Detested


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

    Good | Fool | President


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

    Good | Run | Gave


    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?

    Voice | Sound | Saying


       

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