Carol Burnett Show Quotes

#1. I remember watching 'The Carol Burnett Show' with my parents as a kid. All those weird outfits she wore, like turtlenecks and long skirts, really stayed in my head.

Chris Benz

#2. The reason 'The Carol Burnett Show' did so well in the ratings is because people were looking for that comfort zone when the whole family sat around and watched television and enjoyed it.

Tim Conway

#3. What would be a show that I would rescue? If I could bring anything back, it would be 'The Carol Burnett Show'. Tim Conway is just ... I just watched him so many times do stuff over and over. He's just so amazing.

Tony Hale

#4. I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.

Debra Messing

#5. 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?

Carol Burnett

#6. I think there are lots of ways to exercise ambition and accomplish things using leadership without going into elected politics. So, categorically, I have no intention of going into elected politics. None.

Chris Hadfield

#7. Then what is your suggestion?" "You stop being such a little bitch.

Pierce Brown

#8. We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.

M T Anderson

#9. I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that if I wanted to do a variety show within the first five years of the contract, CBS would have to put it on for 30 shows.

Carol Burnett

#10. The only way to get back the confidence is to play and win matches. You can practise as much as you like, but you need confidence that comes from playing and winning matches.

Greg Rusedski

#11. In a time of destruction, create something.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#12. By keeping her heart protected, she'll never ever feel rejected.

Kelly Clarkson

#13. It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. In the far reaches of the county, cottages were found with skeletons enlaced in the beds, the bones of the baby in the kettle.

Lauren Groff

#15. I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity

Martin Luther King Jr.

#16. Sometimes it's more terrible and more stupid to sit, paralyzed, as events slip past you. A certain kind of guardian angel must watch over fools as they rush in.

Christina Bartolomeo

#17. IT WASN'T STEALING. IT WAS JUST ... REDISTRIBUTION.

Terry Pratchett

#18. I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.

Carol Burnett

#19. It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising.

Calvin Coolidge

#20. I very much enjoyed doing 'Law & Order,' playing a killer - that was fun, and they had a family feel around the set, so it was a happy show to do even though the subject matter was quite the opposite.

Carol Burnett