Latest Carol Burnett Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Carol Burnett

  Nice, Rain, Looks

  "Carol Burnett: The 'Fresh Air' Interview". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. January 29, 2016.

• 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.

  Carol Burnett

  Mean, Daddy, Drunk

  "Carol Burnett: The 'Fresh Air' Interview". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. January 29, 2016.

• 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.

  Carol Burnett

  Art, Writing, Ucla

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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

  Writing, Way

  "Actress-comedienne Carol Burnett". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 30, 2010.

• 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.

  Carol Burnett

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "Actress-comedienne Carol Burnett". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. April 30, 2010.

• 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

  Memories, People, Able

  "Actress-comedienne Carol Burnett". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 30, 2010.

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

  Carol Burnett

  Play, Tennis, Looks

  "Actress-comedienne Carol Burnett". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 30, 2010.

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

  Carol Burnett

  Writing, First Love, Firsts

  "Actress-comedienne Carol Burnett". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 30, 2010.

• 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.

  Carol Burnett

  Soul, Actresses, Comedic

  "Actress-comedienne Carol Burnett". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 30, 2010.

• 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

  Hate, Love You, Kids

  "Carol Burnett chats about 'mother-daughter love story'". Interview with Craig Wilson, www.usatoday.com. April 8, 2013.