- Richard Kind: That is why she is so beloved. It's as if she can't help but reach each and every person out there who's watching and God only knows where that stems from; is it talent? is it desire to be loved? i don't know what it is.
- Lyle Waggoner: Fortunately, Carol was so good at relating to the audience, they all loved her and they all wanted to talk with her and she was real glib, she had fast answers.
- Jon Cryer: Costume gags, getting whacked in the face, . She'd do those character with the incredibly saggy boobs. You know, she was willing to go anywhere with it.
- Harvey Korman: I think Carol is a marvelous actress. I think that people who really do comedy well do tragedy well.
- Garry Shandling: It's a common problem with sketch players that they may not be able to be themselves and address an audience. She had that ability. She was the grounding force on that show.
- Tim Conway: She was absolutely hysterical. You thought she was suppose to be delicate because she was built that way and she was able to move as a real lady and yet, play against that by being so broad. It was just hysterical that a women would allow herself to be that comedically abused.
- Jenna Elfman: When you think about Carol Burnett and her range of comedy, a million images flash by my face. you could watch each sketch forever
- Phyllis Diller: There isn't a comic in the world that hasn't come out of tragedy. Let me put it this way: It takes an irritation to make a pearl into an oyster. And to become a comic, you have to have that tragic irritation.
- Kenny Solms: She wasn't afraid to let her body do its thing. She once said that she would love to leave her body to a prop shop as a skeleton. She still wanted to be on the stage.
- Carl Reiner: All of the things she does, she doesn't do them one better than the other, she does them equally well.
- Tracey Ullman: She didn't imitate people to be mean about them or put them down. She's like celebrating people
- Carl Reiner: Who is this girl? How can she get a laugh out of everything she does? I mean, she was extraordinary. There was no question in my mind about her being a star someday. The fact that she lasted there four years, somebody wasn't paying attention.