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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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Singer
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Carol Creighton Burnett
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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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You do have to love your kids enough to let them hate you. But it's the disease that's hating you, not them.
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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.
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Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
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As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.
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I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.
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My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
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When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.
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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.
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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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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