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Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.


Vicki Lawrence

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STERLING K. BROWN I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dys...
CAITLYN JENNER I was obsessed with Carol Burnett and then Tracey Ullman. Like, obsessed with their shows.
LENNON PARHAM I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.
TRACEY ULLMAN My dream is to get someone like Carol Burnett on the show.
MARC CHERRY In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say...
BO BURNHAM I'm from Wisconsin; well, that's where I went to school from, like, sixth grade till I gradu...
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NANCY HORAN I went to really good New York City public schools that had arts programs. So in junior high, I got ...
MERRITT WEVER People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out...
ADAM PALLY As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain.
CAROLINE RHEA I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vuln...
MICHAEL CERA I went to school in drag, in art school and my day was completely different because everybody though...
GERARD WAY Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I When I went to high school, my most passionate desire was to be a professional baseball player. But ...
TOM WOLFE My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that ma...
JIM THOME I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love...
DEBRA MESSING So early [on] I was a knucklehead just like everybody else. Fresh out of high school, doing the dast...
ANDRE BENJAMIN I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
VIC FUENTES I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - ...
CHRISTINE LAKIN I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I ...
DEBRA MESSING In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silve...
ED O'NEILL I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music duri...
CHARLIE PUTH I told him earlier in the day that I thought he'd do pretty well out there today. He just looked bac...
LAWRENCE TYNES Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in 'Annie', is as funny as it gets.
KATHERINE PARKINSON I was from a tiny little island, which I always say is one corn field away from a horror film: it wa...
DOVE CAMERON Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
VICKI LAWRENCE In high school, I never got asked to prom. So I live like every day is prom for me!
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhar...
ELLEN DEGENERES I saw him on television. I didn't vote for his promises. I just looked at him and saw he was just li...
JAFAR SHALDE My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.
CAMERON RUSSELL Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.
GARRY SHANDLING I remember watching 'The Carol Burnett Show' with my parents as a kid. All those weird outfi...
CHRIS BENZ What would be a show that I would rescue? If I could bring anything back, it would be 'The Carol...
TONY HALE When I started on the 'Burnett' show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off th...
VICKI LAWRENCE I've learned a lot from the experiences that I went through in high school, through college and ...
UDONIS HASLEM The coaches were just yelling at me to take a knee. They told me it wasn't high school.
KNOWLEDGE TIMMONS I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life...
HALSTON SAGE I had a great time in high school. I really did. I went to a private Christian high school and I gra...
ODETTE ANNABLE About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music tea...
FLEA It had a high arc, and as it was coming down it looked like it was off, so I just attacked the glass...
CARL ELLIOTT I am sorry that during the excitement of a 'live 3 hour television event' the wonderful film piece w...
GIL CATES By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.
JOHN CENA My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenil...
MILES TELLER There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Bu...
DANA CARVEY I never looked at it that way. I didn't play high school football, so I had a late start. I was youn...
BEN DAVIDSON Last year, I went with my sister and it really made me want to be in high school rodeo. There's such...
ERIC FLEMING In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the ne...
CHARLES MINGUS I went to high school, and I started getting bullied because I was very weird. I mean, freshman year...
LELE PONS I loved pretending to be a middle-aged Jewish woman. I just wanted to do what I saw Gilda Radner and...
JENNY SLATE I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner...
LEAH REMINI I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high...
ICE CUBE I think that this is more real. I grew up in Garland and went to Garland High School, and I feel rig...
LARRY FRAZIER I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I ...
EMMELINE PANKHURST Everyone thinks they went to high school with me. I take it as a compliment that I look different in...
CARRIE PRESTON One of the (high school) teachers had been to the Fringe festival and she told me about it, ... I th...
JULIE WHITE I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing...
ALEXIS OHANIAN I went to school with butterflies of fear every day for years - from primary school onwards - not ju...
ROBERT WINSTON There probably wasn't a day that went by in high school that I wasn't bullied either physica...
JEREMY SCOTT I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
CAMERON DOKEY I went to high school with Al Capone.
DESI ARNAZ I went to this Episcopalian school, and one day I came home and asked my mom, 'What religion are...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES When I came to New York, I was really awkward. I went to military academy for high school, so I didn...
ADAM RAPP My parents never recognized the things that for me were achievements. I was praised for the things t...
CAROL LEE I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.
BRUCE BOXLEITNER Then I came back and went to CJCA before that I was at CHED when they first started in 1954. After f...
BRIAN HALL I went to an all-girls school for part of high school, and the idea of boys was amazing to me; like,...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
BAM MARGERA It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I stil...
BO JACKSON After I finished high school I went to Hong Kong and Thailand and spent some time there. Just to get...
SHAY MITCHELL I'm just like everybody else. I'm tired of paying high gas prices at the pump. … This is a way to g...
JEFF HARRIS My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high sch...
MAIRA KALMAN I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was tea...
JOHN WOODEN It looked like a piece of art. It was one of the most beautiful goals I saw in high school.
CESAR CARDOSO My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get...
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JACK WHITEHALL I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.
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dive and die, g...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
D.H. LAWRENCE The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter o...
BROTHER LAWRENCE All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake u...
T.E. LAWRENCE Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
LAWRENCE DURRELL Music is only love looking for words.
LAWRENCE DURRELL Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
LAWRENCE DURRELL If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there ...
MARTIN LAWRENCE Wearing overalls on weekdays, painting somebody else's house to earn money? You're working class. We...
LAWRENCE SUTTON The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love l...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
LAWRENCE DURRELL For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.
HARDING LAWRENCE It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can ...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your hear...
LAWRENCE BIXBY Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British wha...
LAWRENCE DURRELL A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
LAWRENCE DURRELL No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
LAWRENCE DURRELL