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My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?
— Carroll O'Connor
I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.
— Carroll O'Connor
I'm lucky. Lord, I'm lucky.
— Carroll O'Connor
People have really taken Mrs. Brown to their hearts. I think she reminds them of their own mammies ... Fierce and scary but full of love.
— Brendan O'Carroll
I can only write what makes me laugh, and what makes me laugh is the comedy I grew up on.
— Brendan O'Carroll
You write what makes you laugh, and you hope that the audience agree, and so far they do.
— Brendan O'Carroll
I think with 'Modern Family,' you'll struggle to find anything better. It's brilliantly, brilliantly written.
— Brendan O'Carroll
If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.
— Brendan O'Carroll
Not all celebrities are dunces.
— Carroll O'Connor
Nothing but the heart can change the heart.
— Carroll O'Connor
I'm not a type-O ... Don't delete me.
— Carroll Bryant
Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.
— Carroll O'Connor
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.
— Carroll O'Connor
It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.
— Carroll O'Connor
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
— Carroll O'Connor
Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.
— Carroll O'Connor
All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.
— Carroll O'Connor
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.
— Carroll O'Connor
In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
— Carroll O'Connor
One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.
— Carroll O'Connor
The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.
— Carroll O'Connor
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
— Carroll O'Connor
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
— Carroll O'Connor
I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category.
— Brendan O'Carroll
I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.
— Carroll O'Connor
And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy.
— Lewis Carroll
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
— Carroll O'Connor
Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come to-day. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry!
— Lewis Carroll
It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment.
— Carroll O'Connor
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
— Carroll O'Connor
We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.
— Carroll O'Connor
Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
— Carroll O'Connor
The wages of pedantry is pain.
— Carroll O'Connor
Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.
— 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.
— Carroll O'Connor
My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.
— Carroll O'Connor
Get between your kid and drugs, any way you can, if you want to save the kid's life.
— Carroll O'Connor
It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.
— Carroll O'Connor
Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.
— Carroll O'Connor