Top 55 Vicki Lawrence Quotes

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.

My dad planned a road trip every summer, so we always did the road trip. We did the Eastern Seaboard and learned about the history of the United States.

I was really a shy kid.

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.

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.’

I hear from many a man around Halloween that’s dressed up as Mama for Halloween. It’s a great costume.

Everyone has fond memories of ‘The Carol Burnett Show’ and the characters we did.

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.

When I started on the ‘Burnett’ show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off the air, I was 28 years old, married with two kids. At that point I felt I really wanted to be mommy to my children. But I found that after a year and a half, I really missed the part of myself that was an actress.

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.

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?’

I don’t know how anyone could stop working.

When I first got an outbreak of hives, I tried everything to find relief. I felt like no one understood what I was going through.

I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I’d look like Cate Blanchett.

I’m very particular about what I want.

I went to UCLA, my dad’s alma mater, and that was his dream.

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

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

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.

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.’

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

I’ve always thought George Carlin was brilliant.

When you’ve got kids, you turn into Mom, and that’s it.

I am no prude, but when I watch comedy, I ask myself, ‘Who wrote this? A teenage boy in the locker room?’

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.

This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I’m happy to oblige.

I think I’m pretty average. Typical.

Making people laugh is what I really enjoy.

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.

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

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.

‘Mama’s Family’ was kind of like everyone’s guilty pleasure.

Everybody has a dysfunctional family.

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

I was married for 10 minutes into a Southern family.

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?

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.’

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

Yes, I love playing Mom.

It’s just kinda what I did: played crazy old ladies.

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.

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.

It’s always good to play tennis with a better player to bring out the best in you.

There is no such thing as a perfect mother.

I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.

My fans were probably the most therapeutic thing for me.

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.

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

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.

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.

I love to cook. I’m a sailor. And I was the eighth-grade ping-pong champion.

I found that I need to work, and I wouldn’t have known that if I hadn’t taken the time off.

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

I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.

I really am a cockeyed optimist.