Carol Burnett Quotes

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

 "Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." ~ Carol Burnett

 "It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington." ~ Carol Burnett

 "When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go." ~ Carol Burnett

 "You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy." ~ Carol Burnett

 "No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful." ~ Carol Burnett

 "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

 "Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own." ~ Carol Burnett

 "If you want to know the feeling [of labor pain], just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head." ~ Carol Burnett

 "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

 "We don't stop going to school when we graduate." ~ Carol Burnett

 "I think we're here for each other." ~ Carol Burnett

 "I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany." ~ Carol Burnett

 "Because nobody goes through life without a scar." ~ Carol Burnett

 "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." ~ Carol Burnett

 "You do have to love your kids enough to let them hate you. But it's the disease that's hating you, not them." ~ Carol Burnett

 "I couldn't get the laughter out of my head. It wasn't career. It wasn't even a choice. It was a calling." ~ Carol Burnett

 "I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned." ~ Carol Burnett

 "I'm really not that funny in real life. But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh." ~ Carol Burnett

 "Adolescence is just one big walking pimple." ~ Carol Burnett

 "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

 "I liked myself better when I wasnt me." ~ Carol Burnett

 "Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head." ~ Carol Burnett

 "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." ~ Carol Burnett

 "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

 "I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love." ~ Carol Burnett

 "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

 "there were times when I was more at home in front of millions of people than I was at home." ~ Carol Burnett

 "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." ~ Carol Burnett

 "Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away." ~ Carol Burnett