"I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real."
-Carroll O'Connor
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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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"Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women."
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"In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards."
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"Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail."
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"I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got."
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
-C. S. Lewis
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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
-Woody Allen
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"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
-Ernst Fischer
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
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"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."
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"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
-Andy Warhol
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