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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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
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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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I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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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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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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I can take more pain than anyone.
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O Winter! frozen pulse and heart of fire, What loss is theirs who from thy kingdom turn Dismayed, and think thy snow a sculptured urn Of death! Far sooner in midsummer tire The streams than under ice. June could not hire Her roses to forego the strength they learn In sleeping on thy breast.
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Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.
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As an actor, you can do everything. I grew up in the theater, and you could do a musical, a comedy, a tragedy.
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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.
