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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
Dancer
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Singer
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Television Actor
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USA
Carol Creighton Burnett
Comedy
Happiness
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More quotes by 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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My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
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Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
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When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.
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I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.
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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
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
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 don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
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
No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.
Carol Burnett
If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right.
Carol Burnett
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
Carol Burnett
I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
Carol Burnett
I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
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 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
I think we're here for each other.
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
