Top 129 Quotes & Sayings by Carol Burnett - Page 3

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.

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.

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

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.

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'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.

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

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.

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.