Quotes by Carol Channing - Page 1

Theres nothing like Nashville for making records.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Nashville
Records
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There's nothing like Nashville for making records.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Nashville
Records
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Regret leads to negativity, and negativity kills creativity.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Negativity
Regret
Leads
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I'm allergic to chemicals in food so I eat only organic foods.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Food
Chemicals
Organic Food
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It's a terrible thing to admit, but I'm not sure I know what Women's Lib is.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Admit
Lib
Terrible Thing
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My clothes are an extension of my personality. I'd look awful in ladylike dresses.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Awful
Dresses
Ladylike
Extension
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I can't remember if I had any stage fright at the first Bowl. But I did the second time.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Fright
Stage Fright
Bowl
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I am terribly shy, but of course no one believes me. Come to think of it, neither would I.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Believe
Shy
Thinking
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Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Appreciation
Happiness
Applause
Laughter
Reward
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The distinction between male and female will never stop existing. We are not alike, and I wouldn't want to be.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Distinction
Will Never Stop
Alike
Existing
Never Stop
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You know, if you're lucky enough to have two smash hit shows, the traffic of the world goes through your dressing room.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Lucky
Traffic
Two
World
Enough World Your
Dressing
Dressing Room
Smash
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I've gone on in a wheelchair. Another performance I did with no voice - and I had to apologize to the audience and whisper.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Wheelchair
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If I talk about something I either talk about it or I DO it... the minute I talk about it it's lost all it's drive and all it's fun.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Minute
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Given the opportunity, I might change a choice I made, but you can't regret making what you thought was the best decision at the time.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Regret
Change Best Time
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You just have to stick to it beyond all reason and all sanity; you just keep at it. You have to believe that you've got to be in the theater.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Sanity
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I am finally a lady of leisure, and it suits me fine. For the first time in almost 10 decades, I don't have an agenda or a structure to my days.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Decades
Leisure
Suits
Time I Am Me
Agenda
Time Me I Am
Lady
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He wrote himself into the role of Dolly. Dolly was hilariously funny and didn't know it. And that's what Thornton Wilder was. He was an adorable man.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Adorable
Wilder
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At first I felt terrible, then I realized... that no matter what I do the rest of my life... I'll never do anything as distinguished as getting on Nixon's enemy list.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Distinguished
Enemy
Terrible
Life My Life Rest
Getting
Rest
List
Nixon
Realized
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There are a lot of actors that don't like touring and will do just about anything to get out of it, but I loved it. I loved the cities, the people, and the new experiences it offered.
Carol Channing / Comedian
People New Will
Offered
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I can't understand people missing a show because they're sick: They've missed their best performance. You have an obstacle to overcome, and you reach for the heavens, and, doggone it, the heavens answer you.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Overcome
Heavens
Missed
Obstacle
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I kept thinking that the audience had gone to so much trouble, working their schedules to be there. They had arranged for babysitters and even traveled in from out of town. Oh, how could I not be there for them?
Carol Channing / Comedian
Schedules
Traveled
Arranged
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I've never understood the use of vulgar language, but the definition of 'risque' is open to interpretation. I suppose I did many things in my shows that could be considered risque... at the time... right up until my 90s.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Interpretation
Vulgar
Definition
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I felt like jumping out a window when I heard Streisand was doing it. I'd played it four and a half years - I thought Dolly was mine. But after the initial shock wore off, I realized no great part is ever exclusively anybody's.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Jumping
Shock
Streisand
Window
Great Part
Half Years
Initial
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I don't hate Charles. I just want my life to count for something. Everyone thinks I just walked out on a paralyzed man. But after he had his stroke, he couldn't hang on to me. And I realized for the first time that I was at peace.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Paralyzed
Life Time Peace
Charles
Count
Stroke
Walked
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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.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Likes
People
Trying
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Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you hope it comes back like a tennis ball. If you're listening to the sound of your own voice, nobody else is. The audience knows, and they freeze on you.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Character
Tennis
Voice
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I still meet with friends, and I'm enjoying life at 97 here in Palm Springs. They are trying to establish a new theater here in the desert, and if they raise enough money, I understand they might be calling it The Carol Channing Playhouse. Wouldn't that be wonderful? What an honor that would be.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Desert
Honor
Theater
Wonderful
Life Money Enough
Springs
Life Money New
Palm
Carol
Enjoying
Enjoying Life
Establish
Meet
Raise
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We couldn't let anyone know about it at the time, but I wasn't all that healthy at times. I was battling cancer and had to have treatment in New York once a week, so Mr. Merrick arranged for me to fly out after the show on Sunday, from wherever we were touring, to see my doctor on Monday and fly back in time for the show on Tuesday.
Carol Channing / Comedian
Monday
Sunday
Touring
Treatment
Tuesday
Arranged
Time Doctor Me
Battling
Mr
Fly
Once A Week
Wherever
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