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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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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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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 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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Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.
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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.
Carol Burnett
No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.
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My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
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When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.
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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.
Carol Burnett
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 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 the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
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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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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
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
Carol Burnett
If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right.
Carol Burnett
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.
Carol Burnett
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Carol Burnett
I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
Carol Burnett
I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.
Carol Burnett
