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

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

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• He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Right

• Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Advantage
  • Stardom

• Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Joy
  • Things

• The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Chinese
  • More

• I don't wear sunscreen. I don't have a skincare program.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Program
  • Wear
  • Sunscreen

• I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Literature
  • Luck
  • Loved

• All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Evil
  • Poverty

• Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it that when life can be so hard and difficult, we compound it by self-sabotage, doing terrible things? That's always been my main area of inquiry, and it does lead you to dark places.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Life
  • Why
  • Dark

• They call, in fact, for the forfeiture, to a greater or less degree, of human liberty, to the point where, were I to attempt to sum up what socialism is, I would say that it was simply a new system of serfdom.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Up

• I've always been known for speeding up the tempo. To me, that's just the way you play the game - aggressive. There's no time to rest. You rest on the sidelines.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• We need to encourage and reward those who play by the rules.

  

  Chuck Fleischmann

• Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Experience
  • Eyes

• The character in 'Arya' was so close to my real life persona. The director saw me once and felt I was the right guy for the role because my body language was so flamboyant. In real life, too, I am very peppy and full of life.

  

  Allu Arjun
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character

• Hermione is so close to who I am as a person that I've never really had to research a role. I'm literally rediscovering what it means to be an actress.

  

  Emma Watson

• Making books is a very specific kind of activity. It's not really a collection of your best pictures - although it is - but it's also a way of presenting your work so that it's not repetitive, so that it flows, and so that it makes sense in a book.

  Elliott Erwitt
  • Work
  • Book

• I want soccer to be a stable profession that attracts young female athletes when they graduate from college.

  

  Christen Press
  • College
  • Soccer

• I'm definitely influenced by Animal Collective. I watched them early on.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Animal

• There are people who I still knock around with from the Primrose Hill set, but they have found sobriety, too, and are doing their own things.

  

  Davinia Taylor
  • People
  • Sobriety

• I'm not really a political-type person, meaning that I don't really make great stands or whatever, but if you ask me a direct question I say it shouldn't matter who you are, whether you're black, white, green, gay, male, female. If you can do a job and do it well you should be paid for it, you should be respected for it, and you have to be responsible. I think sometimes people can go too fare trying to make a point. I think they should just make their point and go on about.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Gay

• I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Stories
  • Tennis
  • Brilliant

• Studios have been trying to get rid of the actor for a long time and now they can do it. They got animation. NO more actor, although for now they still have to borrow a voice or two. Anyway, I find it abhorrent.

  

  James Coburn
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove,Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand.

  

  John Dryden
  • Hand

• In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Movie
  • You
  • Running

• I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

  

  Carroll O'Connor
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  • Directors