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Jimmy Stewart and Lucille Ball were so unique.
Carol Burnett -
I do think there are some great female comics: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph. They're the whole ball of wax.
Carol Burnett
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I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas.
Carol Burnett -
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.
Carol Burnett -
Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.
Carol Burnett -
Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.
Carol Burnett -
My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too.
Carol Burnett -
I'm not a person who likes to confront.
Carol Burnett
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I love Maya Rudolph. She's very multitalented herself.
Carol Burnett -
I am not a joke-teller. Stand-up, I couldn't do.
Carol Burnett -
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.
Carol Burnett -
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 -
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.
Carol Burnett -
Just scream! You vent, and the body just feels good after a good old yell.
Carol Burnett
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I really enjoy connecting with the audience.
Carol Burnett -
If I go to a party, I'm not one to be the funniest person in the room at all.
Carol Burnett -
Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.
Carol Burnett -
I don't watch sitcoms. I really don't. My problem with them is they take so long to film them that there's no spontaneity. I want to see that.
Carol Burnett -
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.
Carol Burnett -
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
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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 -
I have a great memory.
Carol Burnett -
I am not a person who yells at all, but I realized that I have always felt so good after doing the Tarzan yell, after doing Charo, or screaming as Eunice.
Carol Burnett -
Kristin Wiig I think is brilliant.
Carol Burnett