There's a reason Archie didn't go the way of Betty Boop or Davy Crockett or Woody Woodpecker, forgotten relics of a bygone era, and it's because when 'Archie' stories are at their best, anyone of any age can see a little bit of themselves in them.
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Related I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN What's incredible about 'Hamilton,' and the reason you can't get a ticket, is becaus... LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA Any parent who tells their kids that they can't attend a school play or go to a soccer match bec... SIMON SINEK I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants... TREY GOWDY Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN I pitched the idea to FX that there's this larger 'Fargo' universe where there's tru... NOAH HAWLEY People are just way too sensitive. You couldn't have a show like 'Archie Bunker' on TV. ... TRACY MORGAN It's been a fascinating thing because we didn't really know how to write when we started Sou... TREY PARKER If you're a classical actor, every Shakespearean part you play, you then say, 'McKellen did ... DOUGLAS HODGE The idea of lasting consequences isn't your usual 'Archie' trope. MARK WAID I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone w... LARA STONE Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft... GORDON KORMAN If you ever see young artists, and they're not sounding good, they sound good. They're good ... THE WEEKND 'Lassie' was amazing. I didn't have any scenes with humans. There's a couple little ... PETER DINKLAGE The way a woman or a man handles themselves, at a certain age I can't blame you for the way you ... TREY SONGZ 'Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science ... DAVID GERROLD Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a con... MARK HAMILL It was part of the reason I almost didn't go public with my diagnosis - I was embarrassed. I fel... ROBIN ROBERTS It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with ... CUBA GOODING, JR. At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it wa... GARY JOHNSON It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If wome... VERA WANG There's a lot of girls out there that can relate to me. They can look at me and see themselves a... PAIGE VANZANT It used to be that people would watch TV shows because they knew the characters would stay the same.... BRYAN CRANSTON Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very sp... NICOLE ARI PARKER With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than t... BOB NEWHART Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. CHANDRA WILSON My favorite TV couple is Edith and Archie Bunker. Because they were such individuals that I can'... MICHAEL JAI WHITE When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was 'The G... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabi... PHIL COLLINS There's a couple of movie parts that I can't remember. There was always something kind of lu... CRAIG ROBINSON I just think TV is becoming more and more interesting in a way. Films are more and more derivative, ... JOE ABERCROMBIE I believe that there's good content or bad content. You see interviews when somebody interviews ... EMILIO AZCARRAGA JEAN Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people... NORMAN LEAR When you talk to a Republican, many of them just outright say, 'Yeah. Climate change isn't r... PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. It's harder to be angry at home when we lose. When it was just me and the missus, she didn't... HARRY KANE As a little girl growing up in Southside Jamaica Queens, if anyone would've told me I'd have... NICKI MINAJ The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go's ever getting created. Because be... JANE WIEDLIN Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a lit... LINDA RONSTADT It's not new: In the '70s, Archie Bunker said terrible things on 'All in the Family,'... JASON BATEMAN Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there ar... ZACH GALIFIANAKIS People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it'... NICK CAVE There's a lot of movies, and I've made some of them that could be categorized this way, but ... KELLY ASBURY I can't worry about what other people are saying about me. At the end of the day, it's just ... CARMELO ANTHONY You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can... DEBBIE HARRY The new age of terrorism isn't on the battlefield: it's in your own backyard. Whether it'... BILL GOLDBERG As MBA professors endlessly tell their students, companies do best when they stick to what they do w... JEFFREY KLUGER We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies ... ANDREW COYLE BRADLEY If you look at 'Gnomeo & Juliet,' the movie's message essentially says it doesn'... DAVID FURNISH Every other piece of industrial design is a pot or a dish or something insignificant. But when you h... CHARLES POLLOCK I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go ... WALTER ANNENBERG There's a bit more of a safe distance when you're making a narrative movie, a bit more persp... TOM MCCARTHY 'The Names' is a story about a woman who might feel that she's in a kind of maze. She... PETER MILLIGAN There's a little bit of pain in every transition, but we can't let that stop us from making ... PHIL SCHILLER You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a come... TRACY MORGAN I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in sch... SANFORD I. WEILL It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn'... DANIEL ELLSBERG It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in 'Alice in Wonderland' or a d... COLLEEN ATWOOD There's a reason God didn't give me this success in my 20s, because I'd have blown it. BILL ENGVALL A lot of times, it's nice to open, because the heat's off you. You just go out and blast you... JOE COCKER I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishin... CARROLL O'CONNOR I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishin... CARROLL O'CONNOR There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there... IMRAN AMED My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's no... WILLIAM SHATNER I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I cam... J. D. VANCE When I put a bicycle wheel on a stool, the fork down, there was no idea of a 'ready-made' or... MARCEL DUCHAMP There are some fantastic roles for women and women of a certain age on television, whether it's ... MEGAN FOLLOWS When sighted people cover their eyes or find themselves in a dark place, this is something that'... ROSEMARY MAHONEY There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect... CHRIS CORNELL It's not a case of 'look at me in my car'; it's more, 'look at the car'. I l... JAY KAY I don't think the job of the antiracist is to convert the far-out heathen racist, or give them t... TIM WISE It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things l... MAE WHITMAN The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it's the gospe... BIG BOI Any kid that feels like they don't have any kind of future, whether they're on a street corn... JAMES BROLIN When you're doing a film, you're on a set and you have retakes and you have time to get it r... MEGAN FOX There's a song called 'My Faith' that's kind of my spiritual song on my record. It... BRANTLEY GILBERT It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w... GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ... GARY F EVANS... I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationshi... TONY KUSHNER You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know th... ABBY WAMBACH
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