I. Frost's Selected Quotations

Everything at Amazon by and about: Carol Burnett

Are we having fun yet?

I won't sign anything that seems tasteless to me ... for instance, The National Enquirer

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

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own

I think we're here for each other

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned

Thank God, I am still an atheist

When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go

This is to explain just how your mom turned out to be the kind of hairpin she is.

You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

I liked myself better when I wasn't me

Comedy is tragedy plus time

I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?

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?

If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right

I'm so glad we had this time together, Just to have a laugh or sing a song. Seems we just get started and before you know it Comes the time we have to say, "So long."

I drifted off, dreaming footlights every color of the rainbow (about her first New York performance)