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Carroll O'Connor Quotes

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

Carroll O'Connor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: August 2, 1924 - June 21, 2001

Topics

Value Entertainment Everything Above

I had a problem with cops pulling me over all the time for speeding. When I was doing Hill Street Blues, the cops said how much they loved the show as they were writing me up; meanwhile my insurance went through the roof.

Time Me Writing Loved Problem Doing

I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV.

Work Women Feet Think End You

I would love to be nominated for an award at some point or do something that at least engenders the type of cultural conversation that a role like Giancarlo Esposito on 'Breaking Bad,' or actually any of the people on 'Breaking Bad.' I would love to have a role in a feature film that was a cultural talking point.

Love People Talking Award Bad Point

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

Life Me Strike Being Event State

Pregame, you definitely want to carb up.

You Want Up Definitely

The Blue Ridge Mountains are an incredible place.

Mountains Blue Place Incredible

I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars.

Time Writing Drawing Person Wood Up

I am convening the African Leaders Forum on Disability in partnership with Special Olympics so that a marginalized population long unrecognized does not remain in the shadows. I consider this a critical, moral and practical challenge.

Challenge I Am Long Partnership

My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.

Funny Army Friends New Friends Year

I put myself through college.

Myself College Through Put

My all time favourite films - one is 'Mary Poppins,' and the other one is 'Pakeezah.' 'Pakeezah' was an Indian film. The beauty of 'Pakeezah' was that it had a soundtrack which was pure poetry.

Beauty Time Poetry Pure Film Indian

It would be wholly wrong constitutionally for the unelected House of Lords to do anything, to kill anything of a financial nature that has been through the House of Commons not once but twice.

Nature Financial House Wrong Twice

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