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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.
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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Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
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No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.
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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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Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
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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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It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.
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I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.
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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 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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If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right.
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I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
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Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.
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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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I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
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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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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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I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.
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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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there were times when I was more at home in front of millions of people than I was at home.
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