Carroll O'Connor (John Carroll O'Connor) Quotes

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

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• I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Me
  • Strange
  • Hated

• Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Natural
  • Example
  • Objects

• Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Real
  • Me
  • Feel

• Presenting football is something that I love to do. I'm very fortunate being able to do one of the BBC's flagship shows.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Football
  • Shows
  • Fortunate

• I love my job and my relationship with the viewers who watch my shows.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Job
  • Relationship
  • Shows

• Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Shows
  • Democrats
  • Poll

• If I am comfortable with my co-star, then that always shows in my performances.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Shows
  • Comfortable
  • Co-Star

• Something funny always happens in every show in the UK and I genuinely love touring the UK because it's where I'm from. I just get a warm feeling when I'm home.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Funny

• I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Audience

• I’ve never watched an entire episode of "American Idol." It’s too mean. Why would anyone want to go on a show to be ripped apart? I don’t want to be tough with my singers, but I do want to tell them on "The Voice" that if you really want this, you’ll be kicked when you’re down. You have to be willing to roll with those punches. You have to really want it.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Why
  • American
  • Mean

• All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• There was no way in hell I was going to jeopardize my baby for my show.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Way
  • Baby
  • Shows

• I don't know what my life would have been like if I'd never gotten into show business.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Life
  • Business
  • Shows

• Maybe I should, I don't know leave? Because this is starting to sound like one of those reality shows I don't want to be in. Maybe you guys want to take turns in the confessional booth.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Reality
  • Sound
  • Shows

• The museums want large crowds coming to the shows - it's the same thing. It's hype. Absolutely. But there's nothing evil about it.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Evil
  • Shows
  • Crowds

• Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.

  

  Wayne Shorter
  • Life
  • Music
  • Struggle

• What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Good
  • Music
  • Fun

• The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Water
  • Moon
  • Need

• It is, I think, one of the greatest honors that you can bestow on the code talkers. I'm really happy about it.

  

  Chester Nez
  • Code
  • Honors
  • Talkers

• There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.

  

  Raymond Carver
  • Moments
  • Literature
  • Significant

• The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the man's power to waste, and therefore his superiority over other men. ... As is the case with any other object of art, her uselessness is her use.

  

  Emily James Smith Putnam
  • Gods
  • Measure
  • Weapon

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

  

  Carroll O'Connor
  • Shows
  • Hated
  • Objects