Top 93 Quotes & Sayings by Vicki Lawrence

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American comedian Vicki Lawrence.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Vicki Ann Lawrence, sometimes credited as Vicki Lawrence Schultz, is an American actress, comedian, and pop singer. She is best known for her character Mama. Lawrence originated multitudes of characters beyond Mama on CBS's The Carol Burnett Show from 1967 to 1978, the variety show's entire series run.

American - Comedian | Born: March 26, 1949

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Everybody has a dysfunctional family.

Vicki Lawrence

Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like 'Mama.' No one ever comes up to me and says 'Mama' is just like them, so no one is ever offended by her. Even young people like to laugh at her. I think she helps kids appreciate their own grandmothers more.

Vicki Lawrence

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

Vicki Lawrence

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.

Vicki Lawrence

I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.

Vicki Lawrence

I've really enjoyed doing 'Annie Get Your Gun' and loved Neil Simon stuff like 'Chapter Two.'

Vicki Lawrence

People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.

Vicki Lawrence

That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.

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TV's been good to me.

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Yes, I love playing Mom.

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A lot of the things that loved ones say to each other, friends would never accept.

Vicki Lawrence

I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.

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I really am a cockeyed optimist.

Vicki Lawrence

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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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 was married for 10 minutes into a Southern family.

Vicki Lawrence

My parents raised me to believe that when one door slams in your face, turn around because there's probably another door opening up somewhere.

Vicki Lawrence

I really feel my family is my priority.

Vicki Lawrence

When the opportunity came along to do 'Win, Lose or Draw,' I took it selfishly to find out if I did enjoy being me on camera. And I did that for the last two years I was doing 'Mama's Family.'

Vicki Lawrence

I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

Vicki Lawrence

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.

Vicki Lawrence

The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.

Vicki Lawrence

I often feel like I could fall off the face of the Earth. As long as 'Mama' was around, nobody would really miss me. People really think of her as an actual person. People all the time see me and ask, 'Where's Mama?' Like she should be with me.

Vicki Lawrence

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?'

Vicki Lawrence

When I hosted 'Win, Lose or Draw,' it was always fascinating to me that no one knew where anything was when they had to draw a destination.

Vicki Lawrence

I went to Vietnam during the Vietnam War to visit all the troops. We would fly into a hospital and serve mess to the guys, and we ate whatever they were eating. Then we slept there and flew out the next day to little bases where there were maybe 10 or 20 guys. Then we flew to another hospital.

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I don't get people baring their lives on television. Maybe it makes other people feel better about themselves. Is that what it is? You watch these people making total fools of themselves. It's like there's absolutely no privacy.

Vicki Lawrence

Life is much too serious to be taken seriously.

Vicki Lawrence

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.

Vicki Lawrence

What I learned was that celebrities come to me with a preconceived notion. They think I'm fun, or they've worked with me, or they know me, or we've met. So there's a lot of backstuff on the 'Vicki!' show.

Vicki Lawrence

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?'

Vicki Lawrence

Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.

Vicki Lawrence

Anybody who has spent time with the networks - in fact, you don't even have to spend time with the networks, all you have to do is just watch primetime TV - and you think, 'What the hell are they doing? I could run the network better.' And I think everybody feels that way.

Vicki Lawrence

I think for people that are dealing with this out there, the important thing to know is that this is real. It's called CIU, and there are solutions out there for you.

Vicki Lawrence

I think the older you get, the more 'let's cut to the chase' you get, 'let's quit quibbling about this, let's tell it like it is.'

Vicki Lawrence

There's nobody telling Oprah what to do. There's no one telling David Letterman what he can and can't do. You've got to have 100 percent support from everybody who's behind the show, across the board.

Vicki Lawrence

I think it is a universal problem that we are so often cruel to the people we love.

Vicki Lawrence

I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.

Vicki Lawrence

Making people laugh is what I really enjoy.

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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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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?

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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 think I'm pretty average. Typical.

Vicki Lawrence

I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they said, 'We love having veterans like you on because she's like a little sponge, and she's really appreciative of all the veterans that are coming on the show, and we just love that you're teaching her.'

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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 feel it is time to lighten up and laugh about things and enjoy ourselves a little bit more.

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I go out and speak to women's groups all the time, and I say, 'Guys, you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.'

Vicki Lawrence

I think it's time for people to stop being so serious about everything.

Vicki Lawrence

My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'

Vicki Lawrence

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.

Vicki Lawrence

Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.

Vicki Lawrence

I'm very particular about what I want.

Vicki Lawrence

I flew to New York to do a commercial back in the day when people could meet you at the gate, and the little agent when I came off the plane said, 'Oh, Miss Carr, we are so happy to have you here.' I went, 'Oh, for goodness sakes.'

Vicki Lawrence

Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.

Vicki Lawrence

When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.

Vicki Lawrence

Dick Clark and I had such a hysterical relationship with each other.

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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.

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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.