40 Quotes by Carroll O'Connor

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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