It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.
Wisdom
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Quotes by Carroll O'Connor
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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.
Happiness
Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.
Wisdom
Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.
Wisdom
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
Wisdom
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
Wisdom
It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.
Wisdom
One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.
Friendship
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.
Wisdom
The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.
Wisdom
The wages of pedantry is pain.
Wisdom
Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
Wisdom
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
Wisdom
My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.
Happiness
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?
Wisdom
I'm lucky. Lord, I'm lucky.
Wisdom
Not all celebrities are dunces.
Wisdom
All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.
Wisdom
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
Wisdom
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
Success
In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
Wisdom
My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?
Wisdom
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