Carol Burnett
Carol Burnett
Carol Creighton Burnettis an American actress, comedian, singer, and writer, whose career spans six decades of television. She is best known for her long-running TV variety show, The Carol Burnett Show, for CBS. She has achieved success on stage, television, and film in varying genres including dramatic and comedy roles. She also has appeared on various talk shows and as a panelist on game shows...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth26 April 1933
CitySan Antonio, TX
CountryUnited States of America
I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.
What I do when I write is I just write the way I would tell it, so it comes out just exactly the way I would talk to you.
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.
I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or whatever, when you are a freshman at UCLA then - I guess it's still the same way - you had to take an acting class.
I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Before you go to bed, write down three 'gratefuls' for the day and three 'did wells' (they can even include something as simple as doing the laundry)-the results can be amazing!
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.
I'm so happy that we can share the many years of music and sketches from our shows with the students of UCLA and people interested in the entertainment industry,
She was a mountain girl, ... We brought some of her ashes here and placed them next to F.C. Jones. I know she is here tonight because she loved bluegrass.
She suffered. She suffered a whole lot. And at one point I was praying for her to be released. You know, it's just too much.
She said, 'Mama, if I can take it back ...,
When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always "a big breakthrough" or a "radical departure." Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?