Vicki Lawrence Quotes
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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 hear from many a man around Halloween that's dressed up as Mama for Halloween. It's a great costume.
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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 was really a shy kid.
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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 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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I'm very particular about what I want.
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There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit.
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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 much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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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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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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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 love to cook. I'm a sailor. And I was the eighth-grade ping-pong champion.
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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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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.