Vicki Lawrence Quotes
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I feel like my life has been very serendipitous and really kind of humorous. Everything that's happened to me has been like an, 'Omigod, are you kidding me?'
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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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I hear from many a man around Halloween that's dressed up as Mama for Halloween. It's a great costume.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
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Dick Clark and I had such a hysterical relationship with each other.
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I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.
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I was really a shy kid.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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I really am a cockeyed optimist.
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Everybody has a dysfunctional family.
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We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and you never take it personally; everybody just has a ball laughing at him.
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I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I'd look like Cate Blanchett.
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I love to cook. I'm a sailor. And I was the eighth-grade ping-pong champion.
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I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.
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I'm very particular about what I want.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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I remember being totally enamored with Sid Caesar.
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, and you're doin' the dishes with your sister, and you're like, 'Omigod, can you believe she said that?'