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Carol Burnett
American
Actress
About the author
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Carol Burnett,
American
Actress
#Life
#Words
Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
Carol Burnett,
American
Actress
#Walking
#Adolescence
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,
American
Actress
#Help
#Strangers
#Kindness
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Carol Burnett,
American
Actress
#Life
#Change
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,
American
Actress
#Experience
#Protection
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,
American
Actress
#Hollywood
#Stars
#Mother
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,
American
Actress
#Education
#Order
My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
Carol Burnett,
American
Actress
#Movies
My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away.
Carol Burnett,
American
Actress
#Diet
Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.
Carol Burnett,
American
Actress
#Welfare
We don't stop going to school when we graduate.
Carol Burnett,
American
Actress
#School
Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.
Carol Burnett,
American
Actress
#Want
#Growing up
When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.
Carol Burnett,
American
Actress
#Dream
I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
Carol Burnett,
American
Actress
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,
American
Actress
#Mother
#Girls
#Growing up
Because nobody goes through life without a scar.
Carol Burnett,
American
Actress
#Life
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,
American
Actress
#Life
#People
#Living
#Famous
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,
American
Actress
#Food
#Dream
Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.
Carol Burnett,
American
Actress
#Time
#Will
#Celebrity
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
Carol Burnett,
American
Actress
#Time
#Tragedy
#Comedy
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
Carol Burnett,
American
Actress
#Giving
I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.
Carol Burnett,
American
Actress
#Fish
I liked myself better when I wasn't me.
Carol Burnett,
American
Actress
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,
American
Actress
#Winning
#Losing
#Lawyers