Celeste > Celeste's Quotes

“Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.”
― Lucille Ball

“Comedy = tragedy + time.”
― Carol Burnett

“Cavort, dear, just cavort”
― Carol Burnett, This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection

“When I was little I would always stand in front of a mirror and cross my eyes. Then my mother would come in and say, "Stop that, nothing will ever come of it!”
― Carol Burnett

“Carol, if you could be a member of the opposite sex for twenty-four hours, and then pop back and be yourself again, who would you be and what would you do?” My mind started racing like mad. Opposite sex? For twenty-four hours? Who would I be? What would I do? I said a quick little prayer. Please, let me just open my mouth and have whatever comes out make sense. I took a deep breath and what came out was this: “I’d be Osama bin Laden, and I’d kill myself.”
― Carol Burnett, This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection

“When I'm Sad I stop being sad, and be awesome instead.”
― Neil Patrick Harris

“There’s a kid in the middle of nowhere who’s sitting there living for Tony performances. Singing and flipping along with the Pippins, and Wickeds, and Kinkys, Matildas, and Mormons's. So we might reassure that kid, and do something to spur that kid, ‘cause I promise you, all of us up here tonight, we were that kid.”
― Neil Patrick Harris

“But magic is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's pretty good.”
― Neil Patrick Harris, Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography

“The tots both started laughing. On the same day. I'm now obsessed with getting them to do it. Babies laughing is like opium.”
― Neil Patrick Harris