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Carol Burnett
Carol Burnett
American Actress
Born: Apr 26, 1933
Always Because Good Love Me You
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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
Welfare Parents Unloved Abandoned Never Knew Nobody Felt Were Childhood Loved Mean Poor Rough
I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love. Carol Burnett
Love Writing First Write First Love Always Loved
When I was starting out in this business, that was the norm. You did it all. You looked around, and entertainers could dance, sing, play the piano, act, make you laugh. Carol Burnett
You Business Dance Laugh Out Entertainers Could Piano Looked Sing Make Around Norm Did Act Play Starting
If I go to a party, I'm not one to be the funniest person in the room at all. Carol Burnett
Party Go Person Room Funniest
My favourite comedian, of course, is Tim Conway. He has a way about him - being that belly-laugh kind of funny, and he has the improvisational skills, too. I've never seen anybody better. Carol Burnett
Funny Better Seen Too Way Kind Favourite About Never He Comedian Him Course Tim Improvisational Anybody Being Skills Conway
Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up. Carol Burnett
Journalist Astute Know Well How Am Up Did Want Growing Growing Up
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
Legal Losing Pay Too System Bad Magazine Costs Lawyers Winning Lot Where Team Sue
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
Life People Somebody Living Earn Laugh Able Around Making Private Private Life Famous Nose Ask Asked Even
My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away. Carol Burnett
Eat Between Diet Tips Pack Interesting Meals Mean Away Early
I loved the Kennedy Center Honors because you just sit there, smile, wave, and cry. Carol Burnett
Smile You Sit Wave Honors Cry Because Just Loved Center Kennedy
I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas. Carol Burnett
Mother Born Arkansas Come Were Texas Grandmother
I love 'Modern Family.' And I love 'Glee' - the singing, the music - Jane Lynch just kills me. Carol Burnett
Love Music Family Me Singing Glee Modern Just Modern Family Jane
I had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper. Carol Burnett
School High High School Had Studious Always Editor Been Quiet Newspaper
Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away. Carol Burnett
Time Will Long Long Time Go Away Everything Coming Go Celebrity Goes Famous Away
My favorite is doing the television show, as a variety show, every week. If the show wasn't that great one week, we could always come back and apologize, you know? Carol Burnett
Great You Every Back Television Favorite Television Show Great One Variety Week Could Come Know Always Doing Apologize Show
I very much enjoyed doing 'Law & Order,' playing a killer - that was fun, and they had a family feel around the set, so it was a happy show to do even though the subject matter was quite the opposite. Carol Burnett
Family Happy Law Matter Though Killer Had Feel Around Doing Opposite Subject Subject Matter Very Quite Order Much Show Fun Even Enjoyed Playing Set
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
Me Once Broadway Broadway Show Kind Cast Struggled Put Off Mattress While Show Map
When I left 'The Garry Moore Show,' I signed a 10-year contract with CBS. Carol Burnett
Signed Moore Contract Left Show Garry
I'm hooked on Glenn Close in 'Damages.' Carol Burnett
Hooked Glenn Glenn Close Close Damages
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. Carol Burnett
Best Home Films Saw Kid Out Would Best Friend Come Friend Going Movies Then Grandmother Act Raised
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. Carol Burnett
Myself Mirror Seen Back Lock Out Kind Would See Dressing Dressing Room Area Had Come Go Cracked Just Door Apartment Little Movies Room Hollywood Grandmother Act
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
Love Myself You Writing Typing Out Seeing Computer Idea Like Know Around Printing Moving Sentences
I loved doing 'The Family' with Eunice and Mama. They were very interesting because there were no jokes written into those sketches. It was all character-driven. And sometimes it got a little heavy. Carol Burnett
Family Jokes Sometimes Those Written Because Got Doing Were Very Mama Heavy Loved Interesting Little Sketches
My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too. Carol Burnett
Funny Great Sense Of Humor Mother Humor Sense Too Had Great Sense Very Grandmother Dad
I love audiences. Carol Burnett
Love Audiences
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