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Carroll O’Connor was a renowned American actor who rose to fame for his portrayal of Archie Bunker on the hit TV sitcom ‘All in the Family.’ Throughout his illustrious career, he won multiple Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe for his versatile performances on both comedic and dramatic television series.
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About the Carroll O’Connor
John Carroll O’Connorwas an American actor whose television career spanned over four decades. O’Connor found widespread fame as Archie Bunkerand its continuation, Archie Bunker’s Placeon Mad About You. In 1996, O’Connor was ranked number 38 on TV Guide’s 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time. He won five Emmys and one Golden Globe Award.
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Carroll O’Connor was an American actor whose television career spanned over four decades. He is best known for his role as Archie Bunker in the CBS television sitcoms All in the Family and Archie Bunker’s Place.
Carroll O’Connor won four Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Archie Bunker, and one Golden Globe Award. In 1996, he was ranked number 38 on TV Guide’s 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.
In addition to Archie Bunker, Carroll O’Connor starred as police chief William ‘Bill’ Gillespie in the NBC/CBS television crime drama In the Heat of the Night, and he played Gus Stemple, the father of Jamie Buchman (Helen Hunt) on Mad About You.
Carroll O’Connor was born on August 2, 1924, and he passed away on June 21, 2001.
Carroll O’Connor’s portrayal of Archie Bunker in the sitcoms All in the Family and Archie Bunker’s Place brought him widespread fame and recognition. Archie Bunker was a working-class, opinionated character who became a cultural icon and helped address important social issues of the time.
28 Quotes by Carroll O’Connor
- 1.
Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.
Carroll O’ConnorAmerican actor (1924-2001)
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Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
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It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.
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- 4.
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
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The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.
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Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.
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I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
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- 8.
We don’t really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.
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- 9.
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.
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- 10.
I’m lucky. Lord, I’m lucky.
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- 11.
It was a lack of system that made the ’30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.
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- 12.
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
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- 13.
Not all celebrities are dunces.
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- 14.
Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.
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- 15.
My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?
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- 16.
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.
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- 17.
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?
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- 18.
I’ve run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.
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- 19.
In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
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- 20.
Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.
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- 21.
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
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- 22.
The wages of pedantry is pain.
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- 23.
My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.
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- 24.
Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.
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- 25.
One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.
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- 26.
I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn’t personally sad about finishing a long job.
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- 27.
All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.
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- 28.
Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
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