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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.

I do think there are some great female comics: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph. They're the whole ball of wax.

Carol Burnett

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

I was raised going to the movies with my grandmother as a kid. And then I'd come home, and my best friend and I would act out the films that we saw.

Carol Burnett

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

Carol Burnett

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

Carol Burnett

I struggled for a while, but when I was cast in an Off Broadway show called 'Once Upon a Mattress,' that kind of put me on the map.

Carol Burnett

I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that if I wanted to do a variety show within the first five years of the contract, CBS would have to put it on for 30 shows.

Carol Burnett

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.

Carol Burnett

As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.

Carol Burnett

I am not a person who yells at all, but I realized that I have always felt so good after doing the Tarzan yell, after doing Charo, or screaming as Eunice.

Carol Burnett

I prefer doing TV, where it can be different every time.

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

I eat very well, and I do Pilates.

Carol Burnett

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.

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

I really enjoy connecting with the audience.

Carol Burnett

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

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

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.

Carol Burnett

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

Carol Burnett

Comedy is tragedy - plus time.

Carol Burnett

I love Maya Rudolph. She's very multitalented herself.

Carol Burnett

My preference is for people who can do sketch comedy or situational comedy, where it's not a joke, but it's telling a story.

Carol Burnett

Ask anyone who's successful how they got there, you're going to hear a different story.

Carol Burnett

I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn't have movie star looks. I remember seeing pictures and photos of Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, who were kind of average looking. I said, 'Well, that's for me, then, to go back to New York and try to be in musical comedy on Broadway.'

Carol Burnett

I'm like your mother, your sister, whatever.

Carol Burnett

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

Carol Burnett

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

Carol Burnett

I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there.

Carol Burnett

When I left 'The Garry Moore Show,' I signed a 10-year contract with CBS.

Carol Burnett

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

I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?

Carol Burnett

When I went to New York to try and make it, I never thought it wouldn't happen.

Carol Burnett

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

When I was in college at UCLA, I took a playwriting course. I was all set to be a writer. But I had to take this acting class as a theater arts major. I had to do this scene in a one-act comedy. I just said this line, and then... this laugh happened. I thought, 'Whoa. This is a really good feeling. What have I been missing?'

Carol Burnett

Kristin Wiig I think is brilliant.

Carol Burnett