Carol Burnett

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

I do think there are some great female comics: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph. They're the whole ball of wax.

I've always been able to recount things, and I have a really good memory about dialog and what people have said before and this and that.

I have a great memory.

I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.

In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door.

You have to really want it, and don't take it personally if you don't get a job. Because sometimes you're not the type. And sometimes it's somebody else's turn.

I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there.

My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood - and I would kind of lock myself in this little dressing room area with a cracked mirror on the door and act out what I had just seen.

My favorite is doing the television show, as a variety show, every week. If the show wasn't that great one week, we could always come back and apologize, you know?

Because of YouTube, I'm getting fan mail from 10-year-olds and teenagers and college kids.