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Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.
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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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 love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.
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I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.
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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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My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
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I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
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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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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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If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right.
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No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.
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I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.
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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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It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.
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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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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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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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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.
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It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.
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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 the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
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