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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.
Carol Burnett
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Carol Burnett
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: April 26
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
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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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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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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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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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It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.
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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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I think we're here for each other.
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Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
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