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 also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
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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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I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just couldn't really engage on anything else, other than 'Lost;' I was just thinking about it all the time, and then there was just the pure workload, the 70- or 80-hour weeks.
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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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My father, A. M. Rosenthal, edited the 'Times' for nearly 20 years and worked at the paper for many more.
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Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.
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In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.
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People think hip-hop is evil, but it's sometimes the people making hip-hop that are evil. The genre isn't wicked, but the people in it are.
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What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.
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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.
