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Comedy is tragedy plus time.
Carol Burnett
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Carol Burnett
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: April 26
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Comedian
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Carol Creighton Burnett
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More quotes by 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.
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No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.
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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.
Carol Burnett
I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
Carol Burnett
Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.
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It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.
Carol Burnett
Because nobody goes through life without a scar.
Carol Burnett
there were times when I was more at home in front of millions of people than I was at home.
Carol Burnett
In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door.
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 had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
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 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
As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.
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
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.
Carol Burnett
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
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
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
If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right.
Carol Burnett
