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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.
Carol Burnett
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Carol Burnett
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: April 26
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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.
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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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I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
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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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there were times when I was more at home in front of millions of people than I was at home.
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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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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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Because nobody goes through life without a scar.
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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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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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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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Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.
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Comedy is tragedy plus time.
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My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
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I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.
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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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If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right.
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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 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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