#th

My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it? ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#me #nothing #should #why

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#attachment #concerned #even #fiction #fiction writer

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#flattery #got #into #me #particularly

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

— Carroll O'Connor

#faithfully #just #liked #need #really

That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#any #awful thing #become #business #chance

Doing those costume pictures was wonderful. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#doing #pictures #those #wonderful

There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#i #nothing #past #recent #recent past

I didn't smoke. I didn't smoke then, and I don't smoke now. We worked every day - that keeps you in pretty good shape. We could go for a long time in one take. You had to be in good shape with Gene Kelly. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#day #every #every day #gene #gene kelly

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#carry #feeling #lonely #nothing #price

I think you should make more movies, more musicals. I think the public deserves that. I think this country deserves to be able to get out and foster that talent. Give them an opportunity to become stars. I think the whole idea is wonderful. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#become #country #deserves #foster #get