Carol burnett

I was kind of shy as a kid. I was a pretty good student. I was a wallflower, or nerd, if you will.

I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there.

I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.

My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and...

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...

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...

On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - it was a cardboard table with a linoleum top - and sing.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.