Carol Burnett quotes Born: 04/26/1933 Country: usa

• Comedy is a tragedy plus time. (Carol Burnett) [plus/time]
• Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. (Carol Burnett) [change/life]
• Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. (Carol Burnett)
• Because nobody goes through life without a scar. (Carol Burnett)
• All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh. (Carol Burnett)
• But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. (Carol Burnett)
• 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. (Carol Burnett)
• Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away. (Carol Burnett)
• Comedy is tragedy plus time. (Carol Burnett)
• Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. (Carol Burnett)
• I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry. (Carol Burnett)
• I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these? (Carol Burnett)
• I liked myself better when I wasn't me. (Carol Burnett)
• I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. (Carol Burnett)
• I wish my grandmother had done the same. (Carol Burnett)
• I wanted my girls to know me. (Carol Burnett)
• 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)
• 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. (Carol Burnett)
• 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. (Carol Burnett)
• We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres. (Carol Burnett)
• My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run. (Carol Burnett)
• My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away. (Carol Burnett)
• Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief. (Carol Burnett)
• We don't stop going to school when we graduate. (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)
• When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go. (Carol Burnett)
• Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. (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. (Carol Burnett)
• That's an education in itself. (Carol Burnett)
• You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. (Carol Burnett)
• Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has. (Carol Burnett)

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