Quote #3
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
More from Carol Burnett
- Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.
- Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
- Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
- I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
- I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.
- I liked myself better when I wasn't me.
- This is to explain just how your mom turned out to be the kind of hairpin she is.
- We didn't exactly starve, but we were pretty poor when I was growing up. I remember thinking, Oh gosh, if I could just make thirty dollars …