61 Carol Burnett Quotes on Letting go and Firsts - Quotes.pub

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I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

Firsts Quotes

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Attitude Quotes Inspirational Quotes

As for the career, sometimes I catch myself daydreaming about being young again and doing it all over. Then I bring myself up short when I realize how incredibly fortunate I was.

She lit another cigarette and smiled. “And that, kid, is when they added the S to the end of my last name.” I laughed right through the kumquats. I miss her. She died early on the morning of my birthday in 1989, and I got my flowers and the card from her that afternoon.

Our legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone’s plan – if even for a moment – and getting them to think, rage, cry, laugh, argue... Walk around the block, dazed... More than anything, we are remembered for our smiles; the ones we share with our closest and dearest, and the ones we bestow on a total stranger, who needed it RIGHT THEN, and God put you there to deliver. – Carrie Louise Hamilton, dedication page.

I loved it. You gave it more production than that f – – ing Jack Warner!

What I do when I write is I just write the way I would tell it, so it comes out just exactly the way I would talk to you.

I always preferred working with somebody so I could look into their eyeballs and play tennis.

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

No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or whatever, when you are a freshman at UCLA then – I guess it’s still the same way – you had to take an acting class.

You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn’t have the protection that a newspaper has.

I’m really not that funny in real life. But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.

Real Quotes

When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it’s always “a big breakthrough” or a “radical departure.” Why is is no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?

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

I’ve always been able to recount things and I have a really good memory about dialog and what people have said before and this and that.

Daddy, when he drank, just became sweeter. There wasn’t a mean thought in his body. I’ve always said he was like a drunk Jimmy Stewart.

I always felt that I was more of an actress than a – I can’t tell a joke to save my soul, but that I was a comedic actress.

Well, I don’t know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

I liked myself better when I wasnt me.

I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t waiting for a scab either to grow or to fall off my knee.

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in ‘Dharma and Greg’ was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.

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.

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.

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

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

I had a good loud voice and I wasn’t afraid to be goofy or zany.

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

The audience is never wrong.

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.

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.

Have you noticed that all you need to grow healthy, vigorous grass is a crack in your sidewalk? Having a baby is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

I can’t tell a joke to save my soul. It’s just not my thing, though I love to listen to jokes.

The first time someone said, ‘What are your measurements?’ I answered, ‘37, 24, 38 – but not necessarily in that order.’

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don’t work out, that’s when I’ve really learned.

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.

If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right.

I always had a weak chin because we couldn’t afford to correct my bite, which could have been corrected with braces. So the chin was always weak. And I always was – kind of hated my profile. And I thought wouldn’t it be nice someday to feel the rain on your chin without having to look up.

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.

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

My interesting diet tips are eat early and don’t nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away.

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don’t think I could write a novel. I don’t think I have it in me to come up with those kinds of characters.

People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from windex. Yes, I do windows.

I couldn’t get the laughter out of my head. It wasn’t career. It wasn’t even a choice. It was a calling.

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.

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

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.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

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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