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Carroll O'Connor

"It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else."

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"It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else."

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"Gentlemen prefer blondes."

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"Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality."

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"Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes."

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"There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all."

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"There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge."

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"When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out."

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"Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously."

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"Rose was sexy. It was my fantasy about her. She accomplished so much and came from so little in terms of a background that would have prepared her for the world, let alone the world of entertainment."

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"Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia."

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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."
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"The wages of pedantry is pain."
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"Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome."
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"The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable."
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"Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women."
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