Top 20 Carol Channing Quotes
#1. Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.
Jonah Lehrer
#2. Criminal activity does have its appeal. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many criminals.
J.D. Robb
#3. Research does reveal a genetic disposition to substance abuse, but those who believe their addiction is a disease show less of an inclination to resist it.
J.D. Vance
#4. I tried
I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.
John Green
#5. If I talk about something I either talk about it or I DO it ... the minute I talk about it it's lost all it's drive and all it's fun.
Carol Channing
#6. Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
Carol Channing
#7. But this is who you are. You're a liar, and a thief, and a junkie. I don't hate you, Mom. I'm disappointed in you.
Leah Raeder
#8. Walt Whitman said, To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Jack Canfield
#10. Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you hope it comes back like a tennis ball. If you're listening to the sound of your own voice, nobody else is. The audience knows, and they freeze on you.
Carol Channing
#11. You have to get out in some rain to find your rainbows
Brad Perks
#12. I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted.
James Spader
#13. They did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be.
Martin Amis
#14. I don't look at it as writing a book in a videogame universe. I look at it as writing for 'Halo', which for me, transcends being just a great video game. It's evolving into a whole new mythology.
Eric Nylund
#15. When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like to other people. And the moment you do it's a formula for yourself, and then you're imitating yourself, and then nobody likes you and they dont know why.
Carol Channing
#16. I'm allergic to chemicals in food so I eat only organic foods.
Carol Channing
#17. The labor movement is people. Our unions have brought millions of men and women together, made them members one of another, and given them common tools for common goals. Their goals are goals for all America - and their enemies are the enemies for progress. The two cannot be separated.
John F. Kennedy
#18. Simon Monjack had nothing to do with 'Factory Girl.' He filed a frivolous lawsuit against us ... making bogus claims that we had stolen his script. He held us literally to hostage and we were forced to settle with him as he held our production over a barrel.
George Hickenlooper
#19. You know, if you're lucky enough to have two smash hit shows, the traffic of the world goes through your dressing room.
Carol Channing
#20. I am terribly shy, but of course no one believes me. Come to think of it, neither would I.
Carol Channing
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