Carol Burnett Quotes
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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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I do think there are some great female comics: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph. They're the whole ball of wax.
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I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas.
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I think the reason I was successful is that I was never cynical.
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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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If I go to a party, I'm not one to be the funniest person in the room at all.
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Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.
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I'm not a person who likes to confront.
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My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too.
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Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.
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Just scream! You vent, and the body just feels good after a good old yell.
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I really enjoy connecting with the audience.
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You have to really want it, and don't take it personally if you don't get a job. Because sometimes you're not the type. And sometimes it's somebody else's turn.
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I struggled for a while, but when I was cast in an Off Broadway show called 'Once Upon a Mattress,' that kind of put me on the map.
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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.
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I am not a joke-teller. Stand-up, I couldn't do.
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I have a great memory.
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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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Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.
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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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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.
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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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Kristin Wiig I think is brilliant.
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When I went to New York to try and make it, I never thought it wouldn't happen.