Carol Burnett

“I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out. That's when I've really learned.”

“Comedy is tragedy plus time.”

“Comedy is tragedy - plus time.”

“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.”

“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 com...”

“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...”

“Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.”

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

“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 w...”

“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?”

“I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas.”

“My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the r...”

“Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.”

“I love audiences.”

“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.”

“I prefer doing TV, where it can be different every time.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I was very entertained by Betty Grable and Judy Garland.”

“I'm into 'House of Cards.' 'Breaking Bad' - my God, did I binge on that!”