I loved the Kennedy Center Honors because you just sit there, smile, wave, and cry. -Carol Burnett Smile
I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today. -Carol Burnett Age
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 Movies
My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too. -Carol Burnett Funny
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
My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run. -Carol Burnett Movies
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 Famous
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 Good
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 Education
I'm really not that funny in real life! But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh. -Carol Burnett Funny
Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing. -Carol Burnett Funny
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 Food
My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too. -Carol Burnett Humor
Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? I miss that. -Carol Burnett Imagination
