A biography for Vicki Lawrencehasn’t been written yet.
“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.'”
“Yes, I love playing Mom.”
“I am opinionated and want to be part of the conversations.”
“When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.”
“It's special to have people see you and tell you, 'You make me laugh.' That makes me feel good. I think if you have the talent to do it, it's your duty to pass it on.”
“I remember being totally enamored with Sid Caesar.”
“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.'”
“I don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.”
“I never got to Broadway. I would love to do that.”
“My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'”
“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.”
“I hear from many a man around Halloween that's dressed up as Mama for Halloween. It's a great costume.”
“Life is much too serious to be taken seriously.”
“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.'”
“I've always thought George Carlin was brilliant.”
“I really feel my family is my priority.”