 Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire. |
| It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else. |
| I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got. |
| In the final phase of cocaine intoxication, when suicide is likely, the victim cannot save himself by an effort of will. He has lost the power. |
| My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it? |
| All in the Family was intellectual; it was art. Topics: Show Business |
| 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. |
| Not all celebrities are dunces. |
| Nations have come under the control of haters and fools. |
| Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs. |
| I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job. |
| Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man. |
| Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero. |
| Even a true artist does not always produce art. |
| One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made. |
| I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real. |
| Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome. |
| Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both. |
| The wages of pedantry is pain. |
| 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? |
