Carol Burnett

Ask anyone who’s successful how they got there, you’re going to hear a different story.

Carol Burnett

But I don’t begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it’s just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.

Carol Burnett

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Carol Burnett

I never felt cynical, and I never felt that I couldn’t do what I wanted to do.

Carol Burnett

I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there.

Carol Burnett

I was kind of shy as a kid. I was a pretty good student. I was a wallflower, or nerd, if you will.

Carol Burnett

I’ve always been optimistic. And I have a feeling that it happened because of going to all those movies with my grandmother in the ’40s because there was no cynicism.

Carol Burnett

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.

Carol Burnett

No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.

Carol Burnett

When I went to New York to try and make it, I never thought it wouldn’t happen.

Carol Burnett