Carol Burnett Quotes
I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn't have movie star looks. I remember seeing pictures and photos of Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, who were kind of average looking. I said, 'Well, that's for me, then, to go back to New York and try to be in musical comedy on Broadway.'
Quotes to Explore
-
I used to, in the summertime, spend so much money doing a lot of fun stuff. Now, I'm actually consciously trying to save so we can live how we want to live after basketball. I've even sold a few things.
-
Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
-
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
-
The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.
-
We can only learn to love by loving.
-
My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
-
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
-
I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.
-
It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
-
The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
-
Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
-
If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
-
The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
-
Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
-
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
-
If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
-
What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.
-
If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
-
I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.
-
I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things.
-
It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.
-
It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
-
Conservatives of Western North Carolina should send Mark Meadows to Congress. We need his help.
-
I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn't have movie star looks. I remember seeing pictures and photos of Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, who were kind of average looking. I said, 'Well, that's for me, then, to go back to New York and try to be in musical comedy on Broadway.'
