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Comedy is tragedy plus time.
Carol Burnett
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Carol Burnett
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: April 26
Actress
Comedian
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Carol Creighton Burnett
Comedy
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Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.
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I couldn't get the laughter out of my head. It wasn't career. It wasn't even a choice. It was a calling.
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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 think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
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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
there were times when I was more at home in front of millions of people than I was at home.
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I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
Carol Burnett
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.
Carol Burnett
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.
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No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.
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You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.
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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.
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Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
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I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie - the networks just wouldn't spend the money today.
Carol Burnett
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.
Carol Burnett
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 love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.
Carol Burnett
It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.
Carol Burnett
If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right.
Carol Burnett
If you want to know the feeling [of labor pain], just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.
Carol Burnett
