Explore Quotes by Carol Burnett

I think the reason I was successful is that I was never cynical.

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?'

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

I eat very well, and I do Pilates.

I don't watch sitcoms. I really don't. My problem with them is they take so long to film them that there's no spontaneity. I want to see that.

If I go to a party, I'm not one to be the funniest person in the room at all.

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.

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.

Kristin Wiig I think is brilliant.

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.

Because of YouTube, I'm getting fan mail from 10-year-olds and teenagers and college kids.

I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.

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.

Jimmy Stewart and Lucille Ball were so unique.

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.

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

It all happened the way it was supposed to. I wouldn't change anything. I had such a great run.

When I was starting out in this business, that was the norm. You did it all. You looked around, and entertainers could dance, sing, play the piano, act, make you laugh.

I love 'Modern Family.' And I love 'Glee' - the singing, the music - Jane Lynch just kills me.

I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.

My favorite is doing the television show, as a variety show, every week. If the show wasn't that great one week, we could always come back and apologize, you know?