American - Actress | April 26, 1933 -
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.
Carol Burnett
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My first book was an open letter to my three daughters.
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I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
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My favourite comedian, of course, is Tim Conway. He has a way about him - being that belly-laugh kind of funny, and he has the improvisational skills, too. I've never seen anybody better.
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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?
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When I was starting out in this business, that was the norm. You did it all. You looked around, and entertainers could dance, sing, play the piano, act, make you laugh.
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Ask anyone who's successful how they got there, you're going to hear a different story.
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Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.
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Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.
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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 look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.
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My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
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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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