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Carol Burnett
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Carol Burnett
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: April 26
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Carol Creighton Burnett
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Comedy is tragedy plus time.
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there were times when I was more at home in front of millions of people than I was at home.
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If you want to know the feeling [of labor pain], just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.
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Because nobody goes through life without a scar.
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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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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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No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.
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Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
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I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
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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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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 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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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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I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
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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.
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I think we're here for each other.
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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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I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.
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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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No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or whatever, when you are a freshman at UCLA then - I guess it's still the same way - you had to take an acting class.
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