American - Actor | August 2, 1924 - June 21, 2001
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
Carroll O'Connor
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I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
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My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.
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The wages of pedantry is pain.
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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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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.
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Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.
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Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
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Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.
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All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.
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Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
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Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
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