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there were times when I was more at home in front of millions of people than I was at home.
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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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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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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It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.
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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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Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
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I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
Carol Burnett
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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My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
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If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right.
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Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
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Comedy is tragedy plus time.
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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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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 think we're here for each other.
Carol Burnett
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
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 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
I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
Carol Burnett
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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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.
Carol Burnett
