Carroll O'Connor Quotes

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

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  Topics in Business

  Tags in Welcome

• All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.

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  Topics in Art, Family

  Tags in Intellectual

• Even a true artist does not always produce art.

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  Topics in Art

  Tags in True, Artist

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Satire

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Saying, Self

• Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reputation, Men

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

  Carroll O'Connor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Depression, Made

• 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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  Topics in Sad

  Tags in Long, Enjoyed

• 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

  Topics in Stupid

  Tags in Myself, Hate

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

  Carroll O'Connor

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Real, Persons

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Run, Myself

• My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nothing, Self

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

  Carroll O'Connor

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Rewards

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

  Carroll O'Connor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Everything, Entertainment

• Not all celebrities are dunces.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Celebrity

• Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happy, Thought

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

  Carroll O'Connor

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Made

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

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  Topics in Joy, Laughter

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Come, Control

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Character, Thought

Carroll O'Connor (28)

Birth:	2nd August, 1924
Death:	21st June, 2001
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Television Director, Television Producer

About

Carroll O'Connor was born in Manhattan, New York. He was an American actor, TV director and TV producer. A life-member of The Actors Studio, O'Connor first attracted attention as Major General Colt in the 1970 movie Kelly's Heroes. O'Connor later starred in the NBC/CBS television crime drama In the Heat of the Night from 1988 to 1995, where he played the role of southern Police Chief William Gillespie. At the end of his career in the late 1990s, he played the father of Jamie Buchman on Mad About You.

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