"Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire."

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"I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job."

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"Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man."

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"We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show."

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"Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs."

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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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"It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered."

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"I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?"

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