Carol Burnett Quotes
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Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.
— Carol Burnett
I was kind of shy as a kid. I was a pretty good student. I was a wallflower, or nerd, if you will.
— Carol Burnett
I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.
— Carol Burnett
My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
— Carol Burnett
People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from windex. Yes, I do windows.
— Carol Burnett
I can't tell a joke to save my soul. It's just not my thing, though I love to listen to jokes.
— Carol Burnett
I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.
— Debra Messing
Because nobody goes though life without a scar.
— Carol Burnett
If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right.
— Carol Burnett
I always preferred working with somebody so I could look into their eyeballs and play tennis.
— Carol Burnett
Comedy is tragedy - plus time.
— Carol Burnett
Daddy, when he drank, just became sweeter. There wasn't a mean thought in his body. I've always said he was like a drunk Jimmy Stewart.
— Carol Burnett
As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain.
— Caroline Rhea
I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.
— Carol Burnett
I've always been able to recount things and I have a really good memory about dialog and what people have said before and this and that.
— Carol Burnett
The audience is never wrong.
— Carol Burnett
No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.
— Carol Burnett
You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.
— Carol Burnett
Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.
— Carol Burnett
The first time someone said, 'What are your measurements?' I answered, '37, 24, 38 - but not necessarily in that order.'
— Carol Burnett
Cavort, dear, just cavort
— Carol Burnett
I have a great memory.
— Carol Burnett
Lady Gaga is proof that David Bowie raped Carol Burnett!
— Christopher Titus
Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
— Carol Burnett
As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.
— Carol Burnett
My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away.
— Carol Burnett
I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.
— Carol Burnett
The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball.
— Ellen DeGeneres
I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there.
— Carol Burnett
There were times when I was more at home in front of millions of people than I was at home.
— Carol Burnett
Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
— Vicki Lawrence
I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
— Carol Burnett
I think ABC sort of hoped I would be really like Carol Burnett. I mean literally, I think.
— Dana Carvey
I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.
— Carol Burnett
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
— Carol Burnett
I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.
— Carol Burnett
I was obsessed with Carol Burnett and then Tracey Ullman. Like, obsessed with their shows.
— Lennon Parham
What I do when I write is I just write the way I would tell it, so it comes out just exactly the way I would talk to you.
— Carol Burnett
I don't remember a time when I wasn't waiting for a scab either to grow or to fall off my knee.
— Carol Burnett
You do have to love your kids enough to let them hate you. But it's the disease that's hating you, not them.
— Carol Burnett
I liked myself better when I wasn't me.
— Carol Burnett
I couldn't get the laughter out of my head. It wasn't career. It wasn't even a choice. It was a calling.
— Carol Burnett
Comedy = tragedy + time.
— Carol Burnett
We don't stop going to school when we graduate.
— Carol Burnett
When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.
— Carol Burnett
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
— Carol Burnett
Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in 'Annie', is as funny as it gets.
— Katherine Parkinson
I think we're here for each other.
— Carol Burnett
Because nobody goes through life without a scar.
— Carol Burnett
I'm really not that funny in real life! But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.
— Carol Burnett
Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.
— Garry Shandling
I always felt that I was more of an actress than a - I can't tell a joke to save my soul, but that I was a comedic actress.
— Carol Burnett
I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up.
— Stephanie Miller
I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
— Carol Burnett
I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like Mary Poppins.
— Carol Burnett
It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.
— Carol Burnett
I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.
— Carol Burnett