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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.
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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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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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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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 love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.
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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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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 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 don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
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I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.
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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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Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
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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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