Carol Burnett Quotes
People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from windex. Yes, I do windows.
Burnett, Carol. This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection. Harmony Books, 2010.
Ironically, she was views by most Americans as an ideal wife, mother and first lady and yet she led a life of anything but that. She was a working and very successful photographer and journalist before marrying JFK. In the White House she played many successful non-traditional roles including acting as the interpreter when JFK and French President De Gaulle met in summit.
Prior to that time, each household—the women of the household-- baked its own bread and brewed its own beer. Both were very time consuming chores, that were much more efficiently done in large, industrial scale batches. The large scale brewing of beer was developed in Germany and brought to the United States by German immigrants, whose names grace the major beer corporations.
Carol Creighton Burnett is an American actress, comedian, singer, and writer, whose career spans seven decades of television. She is best known for her groundbreaking comedy variety show, The Carol Burnett Show, originally aired on CBS. It was one of the first of its kind to be hosted by a woman. She has achieved success on stage, television and film in varying genres including dramatic and comedic roles. She has also appeared on various talk shows and as a panelist on game shows. She would later have several daughters joining her in variety of American television series and films. She is the mother of Carrie Hamilton, an actress, Jody Hamilton, a producer and actress, and Erin Hamilton, a singer.
