Quotes by Carol Burnett

It's about surviving, getting through it.

I'm really not that funny in real life. But I can be funny on stage.

I believe in the Golden Rule - The Man with the Gold... Rules.

My grandmother and I were partners. My grandparents brought me up. They were very lenient.

I had a lot of dates, but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.

I'm kind of a pessimist. I look at the glass half empty, but I do the work.

I think we're always somehow moving forward.

As we get older, we get better at choosing in general who and what is worth our time.

You've got to be brave to be able to speak your mind.

Work at being the very best you can be.

When things are a little dicey, you just have to have a sense of humor.

I don't think humor is forced upon my soul, but it's a gift from God to cope with the world.

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.

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

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. But it's really not the problem, it's how you go about doing it.

I’m really not that funny in real life. But I can be funny on stage.

It’s about surviving, getting through it.

I believe that you have to work hard, and if you do, the results are there.

The world is full of people who will go their whole lives and not actually live one day. She did not intend on being one of them.

I'm grateful for the opportunities I've had and the way my career has turned out.

I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?

I think the hardest thing to do in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to say.

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

I'm really not that funny in real life, but I can be funny on stage.

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

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

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

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