Quotes by Carol Burnett

About Carol Burnett:

Carol Creighton Burnett is an American actress, comedian, singer, and writer. She is best known for her long-running TV variety show, The Carol Burnett Show, for CBS. She has achieved success on stage, television, and film in varying genres including dramatic and comedy roles.
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When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

Carol Burnett

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.

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

I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.

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 don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?

Carol Burnett

I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.

Carol Burnett

In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door.

Carol Burnett

I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like Mary Poppins.

Carol Burnett

My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I was loved. We were on welfare, but I never felt abandoned or unloved.

Carol Burnett

I liked myself better when I wasn't me.

Carol Burnett

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

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. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.

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

I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.

Carol Burnett

I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there.

Carol Burnett

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

Carol Burnett

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.

Carol Burnett

I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.

Carol Burnett

I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.

Carol Burnett

I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that if I wanted to do a variety show within the first five years of the contract, CBS would have to put it on for 30 shows.

Carol Burnett

Author Bio

  • NameCarol Burnett
  • DescriptionActress, comedienne, singer, dancer, writer
  • BornApril 26, 1933
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Singer
  • AwardsPeabody Award; Presidential Medal Of Freedom; Primetime Emmy Award