Carroll O'Connor (John Carroll O'Connor) Quotes
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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When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.
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In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
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I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
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I'm excited about 'Luke Cage' with Michael Colter, who plays Luke Cage. I play the villain, Cottonmouth. It takes place in Harlem. It'll just be amazing for people to get to see an African-American superhero, which there weren't any when I was growing up.
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I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
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That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.
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At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.
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Memory, out of the mist, in a long slow rippleBreaks, blindly, against the shore.
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If people can't deal with their problems, they numb themselves a little bit.
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I am attracting a new audience now, one that is more open and more spiritually inclined.
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My first commercial was an Old Navy commercial where I stood in line in front of a club, and Fran Drescher was in it.
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I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.
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Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.
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Generally, if a good script comes in I read it, and if it appeals to me, it appeals to me. And it doesn't have to be anything - it doesn't have to be the main character, it doesn't have to be a huge part. It could be a nice cameo - anything that I think is good and surrounded by good, enthusiastic people.
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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.
