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" I liked myself better when I wasn't me. "
Carol Burnett
Liked
Myself
Me
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" I very much enjoyed doing 'Law & Order,' playing a killer - that was fun, and they had a family feel around the set, so it was a happy show to do even though the subject matter was quite the opposite. "
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Happy
Law
Fun
" I'm like your mother, your sister, whatever. "
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Like
Your
Whatever
" Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. "
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Head
Your
Over
" My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too. "
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Grandmother
Mother
Humor
" If I go to a party, I'm not one to be the funniest person in the room at all. "
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Funniest
Go
" I was kind of shy as a kid. I was a pretty good student. I was a wallflower, or nerd, if you will. "
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Shy
Kid
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" In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door. "
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Gentleman
Me
Job
" We all get where we're going by circuitous journeys, and some of the setbacks are warranted. "
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Where
Setbacks
Going
" Ask anyone who's successful how they got there, you're going to hear a different story. "
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You
Story
Going
" I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy. "
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Comedy
Broadway
Wanted
" 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
Losing
Lawyers
Legal
" 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. "
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Know
Newspaper
Experience
" It all happened the way it was supposed to. I wouldn't change anything. I had such a great run. "
Carol Burnett
Change
Great
Had
" 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
Laugh
Thought
College
" It's not a bad thing to be able to do many things onstage. If you're an entertainer, you should be able to entertain. I'm proud to say that I'm not a one-trick pony. "
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You
Things
Say
" Steve Martin in 'All of Me,' when he did that whole thing where he was possessed by the spirit in his body? It was brilliant. "
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He
Brilliant
Body
" 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. "
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Imagination
Edgy
Laugh
" I eat very well, and I do Pilates. "
Carol Burnett
Pilates
Well
Very
" I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking. "
Carol Burnett
Puzzle
Morning
Matter
" When I left 'The Garry Moore Show,' I signed a 10-year contract with CBS. "
Carol Burnett
Contract
CBS
Left
" On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - it was a cardboard table with a linoleum top - and sing. "
Carol Burnett
Sit
Good
Kitchen
" You have to really want it, and don't take it personally if you don't get a job. Because sometimes you're not the type. And sometimes it's somebody else's turn. "
Carol Burnett
Turn
Sometimes
Want
" I love 'Modern Family.' And I love 'Glee' - the singing, the music - Jane Lynch just kills me. "
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Singing
Family
Love
" Because of YouTube, I'm getting fan mail from 10-year-olds and teenagers and college kids. "
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YouTube
Mail
College
" What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it in me to come up with those kinds of characters. "
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Think
Write
Up
" 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. "
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Laughter
Funny
Doing
" Because nobody goes through life without a scar. "
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Life
Because
Without
" I have an iPhone, and I can text, and I can use the phone, and I can even take pictures with it. "
Carol Burnett
Take
Pictures
Phone
" I love Maya Rudolph. She's very multitalented herself. "
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She
Very
Herself
" 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
Now
Guard
Circumstances