Quote

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.

Carol Burnett

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Carol Burnett
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: April 26
Actress
Comedian
Dancer
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Television Presenter
Voice Actor
Writer
Military City
USA
Carol Creighton Burnett
Life
Somebody
Nose
People
Asks
Earn
Making
Noses
Living
Famous
Didn
Private
Around
Laugh
Able
Asked
Even
Laughing

More quotes by Carol Burnett

Image
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.
Carol Burnett
Image
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
Image
As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.
Carol Burnett
Image
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
Image
I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.
Carol Burnett
Image
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
Carol Burnett
Image
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
Image
No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.
Carol Burnett
Image
My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
Carol Burnett
Image
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
Image
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.
Carol Burnett
Image
there were times when I was more at home in front of millions of people than I was at home.
Carol Burnett
Image
I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
Carol Burnett
Image
I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
Carol Burnett
Image
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.
Carol Burnett
Image
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
Image
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Carol Burnett
Image
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.
Carol Burnett
Image
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
Image
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.
Carol Burnett