Carroll O'Connor Quotes

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

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

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

Get between your kid and drugs any way you can.

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

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

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.

Get between your kids and drugs any way you can if you want to save the kid`s life.

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

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

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.

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.

I`m lucky. Lord, I`m lucky.

In the final phase of cocaine intoxication, when suicide is likely, the victim cannot save himself by an effort of will. He has lost the power.

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

Not all celebrities are dunces.

Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.

The wages of pedantry is pain.

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

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?

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

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

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn`t personally sad about finishing a long job.

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

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.

Nothing will give me any peace. I`ve lost a son. And I`ll go to my grave without any peace over that.

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

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

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

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

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.

I think he (Archie Bunker) is in every man my age, no matter what he does, whether he`s a vice president at Chase or a cab driver.

"Get between your kid and drugs any way you can."

"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."

Get between your kids and drugs any way you can if you want to save the kid`s life.

Nothing will give me any peace. I`ve lost a son. And I`ll go to my grave without any peace over that.