Carol Burnett Quotes

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Carol Burnett

Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, which is more than 40 years old, and not scream with laughter.

Carol Burnett

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

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

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

Carol Burnett

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

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

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

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

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

Carol Burnett