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It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.
The wages of pedantry is pain.
Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.
Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
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.
Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.
It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.
One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.
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.