Carol Burnett Quotes (35 Quotes)



    I'm so happy that we can share the many years of music and sketches from our shows with the students of UCLA and people interested in the entertainment industry,

    My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

    This is to explain just how your mom turned out to be the kind of hairpin she is.

    I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.


    My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.

    This has been one of the best times of my life, to meet you and spend time in the town my grandmother told me so much about,

    Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.


    You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has.

    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.


    People invite me to dinner not because I cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from Windex. Yes, I do windows.

    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.

    Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.


    It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

    When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always a big breakthrough or a radical departure. Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy Are they presuming comedy is easier.

    She was a mountain girl, ... We brought some of her ashes here and placed them next to F.C. Jones. I know she is here tonight because she loved bluegrass.


    When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

    Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.

    But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.

    We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

    Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

    Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

    The interviewer asked who he would like to be a guest and he said my name, which was very sweet.

    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.

    Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

    I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?


    But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.

    My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away.


    Because nobody goes through life without a scar.


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