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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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I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
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If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right.
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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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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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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 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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Because nobody goes through life without a scar.
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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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My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
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No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.
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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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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 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 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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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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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 to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.
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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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Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.
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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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