Top 50 Carroll O'connor Quotes
#1. People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.
Carroll O'Connor
#2. You write what makes you laugh, and you hope that the audience agree, and so far they do.
Brendan O'Carroll
#3. I don't know the secret of Mrs. Brown, but what I do know is that there are things that Mrs. Brown says and does that Brendan O'Carroll couldn't get away with. I think maybe it's a leniency that they're with an old woman. It's the old woman thing. I think secretly we all just want to be Joan Rivers.
Brendan O'Carroll
#4. 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
#6. I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.
Carroll O'Connor
#7. My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.
Carroll O'Connor
#8. 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
#9. 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
#13. Again, the first "o" in "borogoves" is pronounced like the "o" in "borrow." I have heard people try to give it the sound of the "o" in "worry". Such is Human Perversity.
Lewis Carroll
#14. 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?
Carroll O'Connor
#15. 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
#17. The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.
Carroll O'Connor
#18. It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment.
Carroll O'Connor
#19. 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
#20. It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.
Carroll O'Connor
#22. 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
#23. In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
Carroll O'Connor
#24. Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
Carroll O'Connor
#26. I can only write what makes me laugh, and what makes me laugh is the comedy I grew up on.
Brendan O'Carroll
#27. Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.
Carroll O'Connor
#28. It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.
Carroll O'Connor
#29. One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.
Carroll O'Connor
#30. Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
Carroll O'Connor
#32. Tom Brady says he wants to give the truck he was given as the Super Bowl MVP to the guy who won the Super Bowl for the Patriots. So Brady's giving his truck toSeahawks coach Pete Carroll.
Conan O'Brien
#33. My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?
Carroll O'Connor
#34. O Oysters,' said the Carpenter,
You've had a pleasant run!
Shall we be trotting home again?'
But answer came there none -
And this was scarcely odd, because
They'd eaten every one.
Lewis Carroll
#35. For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing.
Brendan O'Carroll
#36. Colin reached out and grabbed hold o fine car engine, ripping it. He lifted it above his head. Solomon Cord dropped the wrench and said God it is true.
Michael Carroll
#37. Get between your kid and drugs, any way you can, if you want to save the kid's life.
Carroll O'Connor
#38. 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
#39. I think with 'Modern Family,' you'll struggle to find anything better. It's brilliantly, brilliantly written.
Brendan O'Carroll
#40. Anyone who thinks they can write the perfect comedy that everyone will love is a fool. I can only write what I think is funny and hope that there is a likeminded audience out there.
Brendan O'Carroll
#41. Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
Carroll O'Connor
#42. 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
#43. I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
Carroll O'Connor
#44. If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.
Brendan O'Carroll
#46. Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
Carroll O'Connor
#47. Actors on stage, you can go from playing a myriad of roles, from Shakespeare to a Eugene O'Neil drama, and it's the norm. I came up in a world where you're supposed to be able to do three things very well. Act, sing, dance, paint, do something. The emphasis was on versatility.
Rocky Carroll
#48. Little Alice fell d o w n the hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul
Lewis Carroll
#50. 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
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