Carol Burnett Quotes

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

  Carol Burnett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Run, Features

• 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

  Topics in Kindness

  Tags in Selfish, Help

• 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

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Look

• 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

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Survive

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

  Carol Burnett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Between

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

  Carol Burnett

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Self

• Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

  Carol Burnett

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Words

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

  Carol Burnett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Journalist, Growing

• When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.

  Carol Burnett

  Topics in Dream

• 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.

  Carol Burnett

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Wonderful, Protection

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Legal

• We don’t stop going to school when we graduate.

  Carol Burnett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Going, School, Stop

• Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

  Carol Burnett

  Tags in Teen

• 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.

  Carol Burnett

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Mom

Carol Burnett (34)

Birth:	26th April, 1933
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Dancer, Singer, Comedian, Memoirist

About

Carol Creighton Burnett was born in San Antonio, Texas. She is an American actress, comedian, dancer singer and memoirist. 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. She performed in nightclubs in New York City and had a breakout success on Broadway in 1959 in Once Upon a Mattress, for which she received a Tony Award nomination. She soon made her television debut, regularly appearing on The Garry Moore Show for the next three years, and won her first Emmy Award in 1962. She created many memorable characters during the show's television run, and both she and the show won numerous Emmy and Golden Globe Awards. Her film roles include Pete 'n' Tillie, The Four Seasons, Annie, Noises Off, and Horton Hears a Who!

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• 1955 - Rowan Atkinson
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• 1937 - Lou Holtz

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• 1921 - Alexander Whyte
• 1901 - Philip Armour
• 1985 - Robert Henry Winborne Welch Jr.
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