Carol Burnett
Carol Burnett
Carol Creighton Burnettis an American actress, comedian, singer, and writer, whose career spans six decades of television. She is best known for her long-running TV variety show, The Carol Burnett Show, for CBS. She has achieved success on stage, television, and film in varying genres including dramatic and comedy roles. She also has appeared on various talk shows and as a panelist on game shows...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth26 April 1933
CitySan Antonio, TX
CountryUnited States of America
Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.
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.
If you see a kid in school, who is a little shy ... that's when you should reach out. When you do, you are going to open up a flower and discover something wonderful.
there were times when I was more at home in front of millions of people than I was at home.
My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
We don't stop going to school when we graduate.
I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.
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 the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.
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.
My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I was loved. We were on welfare, but I never felt abandoned or unloved.
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.