Explore Quotes by Carroll O'Connor

All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.

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

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

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

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.

Not all celebrities are dunces.

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

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

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

The wages of pedantry is pain.

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.

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

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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