Carol Channing Quotes

When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like to other people. And the moment you do it's a formula for yourself, and then you're imitating yourself, and then nobody likes you and they dont know why.

Momma and I were in the old kitchen when she blared the song, “Dancing,” from the Hello, Dolly! soundtrack. Carol Channing’s voice pounded out of the boom box next to our oven. Momma held my waist and swept me across the kitchen floor as she loudly chimed in on the chorus: “And one, two, three, one, two, three—look! I’m dancing!” In that moment, Momma was Dolly, and I felt like Cornelius—“My heart is about to burst, my head is about to pop, and now that I’m dancing, who cares if I ever stop!”—and I wanted to stay safe in that song forever with her, our bare feet sliding in and out of rhythm on our cold kitchen floor.

big part, but I wanted to make some sort of cameo appearance in my own movie. Anyhow, I'd also written

Burns continued to work, doing a routine with Carol Channing that was short-lived. For a time it seemed that the old sentiment was to be proved true: that Burns without Gracie was a stale act indeed. Then he got a role in a movie, intended for his friend Jack Benny, who became ill and had to decline it. He won an Academy Award as Best Supporting actor in The Sunshine Boys, a 1975 release. His performance in the title role of the 1977 film Oh, God put to rest the “no-talent” argument.