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" I'm not a person who likes to confront. "
Carol Burnett
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" Kristin Wiig I think is brilliant. "
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" I am not a person who yells at all, but I realized that I have always felt so good after doing the Tarzan yell, after doing Charo, or screaming as Eunice. "
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" Just scream! You vent, and the body just feels good after a good old yell. "
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" I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love. "
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" I really enjoy connecting with the audience. "
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Really
" 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. "
Carol Burnett
Off
Show
Me
" I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn't have movie star looks. I remember seeing pictures and photos of Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, who were kind of average looking. I said, 'Well, that's for me, then, to go back to New York and try to be in musical comedy on Broadway.' "
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" I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy. "
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" What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it in me to come up with those kinds of characters. "
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" I do think there are some great female comics: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph. They're the whole ball of wax. "
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Great
Whole
Wax
" 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. "
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" I'm into 'House of Cards.' 'Breaking Bad' - my God, did I binge on that! "
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Breaking
" I had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper. "
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Quiet
Newspaper
High School
" 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. "
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Home
Best
Movies
" Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, which is more than 40 years old, and not scream with laughter. "
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Laughter
Funny
Doing
" I loved doing 'The Family' with Eunice and Mama. They were very interesting because there were no jokes written into those sketches. It was all character-driven. And sometimes it got a little heavy. "
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Doing
Family
Loved
" 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. "
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You
Things
Say
" I don't watch sitcoms. I really don't. My problem with them is they take so long to film them that there's no spontaneity. I want to see that. "
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Long
Watch
Want
" Ask anyone who's successful how they got there, you're going to hear a different story. "
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You
Story
Going
" My first book was an open letter to my three daughters. "
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Three
Book
Daughters
" 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. "
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Imagination
Edgy
Laugh
" I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy. "
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Write
Comedy
" I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today. "
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" 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. "
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Know
Newspaper
Experience
" I think the reason I was successful is that I was never cynical. "
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" Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. "
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Adolescence
Big
Just
" I was kind of shy as a kid. I was a pretty good student. I was a wallflower, or nerd, if you will. "
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Kid
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" Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up. "
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" When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged. "
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Discouraged
Things