A biography for Carol Burnetthasn’t been written yet.
“I'm not a person who likes to confront.”
“I'm so happy with what has happened in my life.”
“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 don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.”
“It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.”
“I struggled for a while, but when I was cast in an Off Broadway show called 'Once Upon a Mattress,' that kind of put me on the map.”
“You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.”
“I have an iPhone, and I can text, and I can use the phone, and I can even take pictures with it.”
“Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.”
“Steve Martin in 'All of Me,' when he did that whole thing where he was possessed by the spirit in his body? It was brilliant.”
“It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.”
“I never felt cynical, and I never felt that I couldn't do what I wanted to do.”
“I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas.”
“I'm into 'House of Cards.' 'Breaking Bad' - my God, did I binge on that!”
“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.”
“Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.”
“I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.”