Carol Burnett Quotes
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It's not a bad thing to be able to do many things onstage. If you're an entertainer, you should be able to entertain. I'm proud to say that I'm not a one-trick pony.
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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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Comedy is tragedy - plus time.
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I really enjoy connecting with the audience.
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I love Maya Rudolph. She's very multitalented herself.
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I love 'Modern Family.' And I love 'Glee' - the singing, the music - Jane Lynch just kills me.
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What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it in me to come up with those kinds of characters.
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I had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper.
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I didn't really get comfortable until I got to UCLA, and I had to take an acting course because I was studying theater arts.
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My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.
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If I go to a party, I'm not one to be the funniest person in the room at all.
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I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.
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I'm into 'House of Cards.' 'Breaking Bad' - my God, did I binge on that!
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I was raised going to the movies with my grandmother as a kid. And then I'd come home, and my best friend and I would act out the films that we saw.
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I'm so happy with what has happened in my life.
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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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I'm like your mother, your sister, whatever.
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I'm hooked on Glenn Close in 'Damages.'
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Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? I miss that.
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Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
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We all get where we're going by circuitous journeys, and some of the setbacks are warranted.
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My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood - and I would kind of lock myself in this little dressing room area with a cracked mirror on the door and act out what I had just seen.
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I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.
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I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas.