Carroll O'Connor: Archie Bunker

Quotes 

• Archie Bunker : Do you know the kind of money it takes to raise a child? You know, yanking out the tonsils and the adenoods. Straightening the teeth, straightening the eyes.

  Edith Bunker : Her eyes?

  Archie Bunker : All girls go cock-eyed during puberescency.

• Edith Bunker : He's really a wonderful man, my husband, and underneath he's very sweet.

  Archie Bunker : Damn that Barney Hefner, I'm gonna murder him. Look what happened to me just now: I nearly busted an ankle jumping over two pyramids that Barney's dog left on our sidewalk.

• Laura Grant : My main concern is to find a proper place for the child.

  Archie Bunker : Oh, hey, I wanna do that too. But, I wanna be sure she goes... Um, with her own kind. Well, what I mean to say, as you know yourself, that certain mixtures, see, they don't... Uh, mix.

  Laura Grant : What kind of mixtures did you have in mind?

  Archie Bunker : Well you know, the wrong mixtures. Present company suspected.

• Archie Bunker : Some red nail polish, Edith? Why didn't you just buy her some rouge, high heels and a lamp post.