A creative person in Lear's office, when asked about finding material for me, advised picking through the rejected scripts in network offices.
A movie career seemed unattainable: the movies were a realm of miracles where only someone himself miraculous might enter.
All I have to do in the first two shows is credibly tie together the loose ends left at the end of last season.
All in the Family was helping the black community, yet, being unsure, they declined to condemn it.
All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.
As James Baldwin wrote, The white man here is trapped by his own history, a history that he himself cannot comprehend, and therefore what can I do but love him?
At 16 I did not want to be denied a war, presuming it would be as thrilling as the movies made it.
At this time of my life, there's just one thing I want to do, and that is finish a novel.
Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.
Hugh killed himself at home at about 4 p.m.
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?
I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.
I had been very lucky during the war. Convoys I sailed in were attacked, ships were hit and sunk, but never one of mine.
I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.
I have co-starred in a couple of motion pictures but have never starred in or been expected to carry a motion picture. I'm undoubtedly a star but not in the old sense.
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
I joined the National Maritime Union and shipped out of the hiring hall as a civilian seaman. I sailed in engine rooms until 1944.
I liked the idea of teaching college kids. The department heads did not want me to stay.
I look forward certainly to better health in general, and even, though I hate to make big promises, to having a pleasanter personality.
I never heard Archie's kind of talk in my own family. My father was a lawyer in partnership with two Jews, who were close to us.
I think he's in every man my age, no matter what he does, whether he's a vice president at Chase or a cab driver.
I'm lucky. Lord, I'm lucky.
I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.
If I'd gone like that, it would have left all of the people I'm close to unprepared. It wasn't time.
In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
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.
It crosses my mind every day how fortunate it turned out. I could have easily told Dr. Patton, I've got scripts piled up, the tests can wait.
It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.
It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.
Lear didn't write for the show, but he gave the writers orders, watched dress rehearsals, and gave notes.
Looking back over my career, I've been more unpleasant about the material that I've had to do as an actor than any other aspect.
Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.
Mostly, when I've gotten cranky, it's been about the material, hack material.
My father loved Broadway. He would have loved to see me there.
My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?
My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.
My regular doctor was always after me to take a stress cardiograph, but I never had the time.
Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.
Not all celebrities are dunces.
On the series, I took the role on the condition that I could also be story editor and have more control over the scripts.
One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.
Our Archie writers were the cleverest joke draftsmen in television.
Rob Reiner wanted to write movies. Rob and I were very fond of each other.
Science and technology have given screen entertainment an incredibly wide diffusion, as well as many laughably incongruous movies.
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.
Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.
The characters of the story are naturally the main human interest, but the acting is not as important as one might think.
The finished film must inform us much less as readers than as viewers. The camera tells all.
The fresh angle has eluded me. There's nothing really fresh about neurosis.
The Heat of the Night company went to Hammond, Louisiana, to make six episodes plus a double episode. Hammond's friendly people made us feel very welcome.
The men who made the first movies had no apparent need of the dramatist. Directors, cameramen and silent actors seemed to be essential.
The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.
The wages of pedantry is pain.
The White House deceived us about Korea. The press deceived us, too.
The year 1984 brought a fresh new opportunity to flop on Broadway. I signed to act in a play called Home Front.
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.
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.
In 2000, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The last movie he starred in was Return to Me.
Carroll was a brother of the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity.
Carroll earned a reported $250,000 a week for All in the Family in 1980.
Carroll moved to Ireland where he continued his theatrical studies at the National University of Ireland.
In 1942, he joined the Merchant Marines.
Carroll was 5'11" tall.
Carroll was so angered by CBS's last minute decision to cancel Archie Bunker's Place, he vowed to never work for the network again.
Carroll auditioned for the role of 'The Skipper' on Gilligan's Island.
EMMY WINS: 1972, 1977-79 (for All in the Family) and in 1989 (for In the Heat of the Night).
Carroll was nominated for a People's Choice Award in 1999 for "Favorite All-Time Television Star".
Carroll spent some time at the Julliard School of Fine Arts as an acting and dialogue professor.
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