Quotes from Carroll O'Connor

The wages of pedantry is pain.

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.

Not all celebrities are dunces.

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.

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

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?

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.

All in the Family was intellectual it was art.

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

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

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