Ed O Neill Quotes

• "After we separated, I made some important decisions for myself. Today I wish I hadn't have done that. I dropped a brick."
• "All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. When she started to laugh, it was like 'That's it!'. I went to LA and I got the part."
• "Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined."
• "Cathy is the only woman I was really in love with. Currently we are separated, but we are still close to each other."
• "I could have called their mothers as I knew them personally, but actually I liked those kids. It was a great experience."
• "I could have freaked-out, or put on grand airs, hanging around with 16 year old starlets."
• "I entered, and they called me 'Wolfman' because of the beard I had at that time. First they tried to get rid of me, but then they were really scared of me. On the very first day I got all their phone numbers. I made appointments with their mothers and visited them."
• "I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type of guy. That's why I thought the stage is just right for me."
• "I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess."
• "I thought it will be better for everyone if we got married. It doesn't sound good: 'This is my girlfriend from New York."
• "I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again."
• "I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones."
• "I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school."
• "I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And that was my ploy. I had to be careful not to say things like 'I like meat.' Actually I just wanted to drink beer and to screw."
• "I'm not up to my neck with girls falling for me, but even if they did, they would probably think twice about it."
• "I'm very masculine! And I also have the common qualities that men have. But I've been living with Cathy for 15 years. That's a long time. You just can't flip-out anymore like the others. You have to know your way."
• "In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls."
• "It was a big deal for her, but I proposed for her. We lived in New York City before I got the part in the series."
• "Pretty women make us BUY beer. Ugly women make us DRINK beer."
• "Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money."
• "That was all I wanted. And that's what I did. But then I was in a 'Pittsburgh Steelers' camp. That's an American football team."
• "That was back in the 70s. As usual, I was in a park to pick up girls. The one I was interested in was doing yoga and playing the guitar. I sat down beside her and she showed me her kitten called 'Peace'. When we got closer, 'Peace' rushed at a squirrel and teared it to pieces."
• "That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!"
• "When the Vietnam war began I was nuts. I was wearing bell-bottomed pants and let my hair grow. I looked like an idiot."