Vicki Lawrence Quotes
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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 went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.
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There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
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Everybody has a dysfunctional family.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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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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People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.
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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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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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Dick Clark and I had such a hysterical relationship with each other.
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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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Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.
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I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.
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Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.
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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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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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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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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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I never got to Broadway. I would love to do that.
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Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.