A biography for Vicki Lawrencehasn’t been written yet.
“Dick Clark and I had such a hysterical relationship with each other.”
“Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.”
“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.”
“I've been at it since 1967, and I still love it. There is nothing quite like making people laugh.”
“Harvey Korman was like a private tutor to me. He was such a mentor.”
“It's just kinda what I did: played crazy old ladies.”
“I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know - every audience has its own personality.”
“I think it is a universal problem that we are so often cruel to the people we love.”
“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.”
“I love to cook. I'm a sailor. And I was the eighth-grade ping-pong champion.”
“'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.”
“I think it's time for people to stop being so serious about everything.”
“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.”
“The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.”
“I don't know how anyone could stop working.”
“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.'”
“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.”
“I really am a cockeyed optimist.”
“People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.”
“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.”