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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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Carol Burnett
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: April 26
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Carol Creighton Burnett
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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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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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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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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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No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.
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Because nobody goes through life without a scar.
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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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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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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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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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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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Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
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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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It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.
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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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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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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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Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
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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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