Vicki Lawrence Quotes
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Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
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I was really a shy kid.
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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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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 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'm very particular about what I want.
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I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.
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I really am a cockeyed optimist.
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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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There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit.
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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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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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Everybody has a dysfunctional family.
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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 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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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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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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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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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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I love to cook. I'm a sailor. And I was the eighth-grade ping-pong champion.
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.