Carol BurnettQuotes

Carol Burnett
Birthday
April 26th, 1933
From
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Actor

Annie - Concerns About Annie's Behavior

Grace: What about this child?
Miss Hannigan: Annie?... Oh, you don't want Annie.
Grace: Why not?
Miss Hannigan: Because... Because she's a drunk!

Annie - Excluding Annie from Adoption Considerations

Miss Hannigan: You can have any orphan in the whole orphanage... except Annie.
Grace: Well, why?
Miss Hannigan: Because she's got it comin to her; and I *don't* mean a week in the lap of luxury'!

Annie - A Moment of Affection and Rejection

Orphans: We love you, Miss Hannigan.
Miss Hannigan: Shut up!

Annie - Miss Hannigan Enforces Strict Cleaning Rules

Miss Hannigan: What are you just standing around here for? You're supposed to clean the bathroom and the kitchen before lunch, my little pig droppings, and if you skip the corners, there will be no lunch. And we're not having hot mush today...
Orphans: Yay!
Miss Hannigan: We're having *cold* mush!

Annie - Evening Activities and Accusations in Shanties

Warbucks: You spend your evenings in the shanties.
Miss Hannigan: You had me followed.
Mr. Warbucks: Imbibing quarts of bathtub gin.
Miss Hannigan: Bronchitism.
Warbucks: And here you're dancing in your scanties,
Miss Hannigan: Great gams.
Warbucks: With some old geezer called Little Caeser,
Miss Hannigan: He's an uncle.
Warbucks: You lock the orphans in the closet.
Miss Hannigan: They love it!
Warbucks: You hock their Christmas souvenirs.
Warbucks: You steal the funds you should deposit.
Miss Hannigan: It's fresh.
Warbucks: You make the grovel while you buy laveleers.

Annie - Discussion About Annie's Future

Warbucks: Miss Hannigan, I presume?
Warbucks: I wanna talk to you about Annie.
Miss Hannigan: You wanna return her and forget her? Or trade up?
Warbucks: I wanna adopt her.
Miss Hannigan: Would you excuse me for a moment? Aaarggghh!

Annie - Annie's Absence Causes Confusion Among Characters

Miss Hannigan: Where's Annie?
Molly: She had to go bathroom.
Miss Hannigan: [mockingly] She had to go bathroom!

Annie - Defending the Orphan Against Harm

Miss Hannigan: [to Rooster about Annie] She may be a mean, rotten little orphan, but I'm not gonna let you kill her!

Annie - Questioning the Presence of Happiness

Miss Hannigan: Do I hear happiness in here?

Annie - Miss Hannigan's Frustration with Little Girls

Miss Hannigan: Little girls, little girls, everywhere I turn I can see them.

Annie - Miss Hannigan's Perspective on Wealth and Jealousy

Miss Hannigan: [singing] Some women are drippin with diamonds / Some women are drippin with pearls / Lucky me, lucky me, look at what I'm drippin with / Little girls!