Vicki Lawrence Quotes

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Vicki Lawrence

Profession : Comedian

Birth : March 26, 1949

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.

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I was married for 10 minutes into a Southern family.

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

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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.

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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 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.'

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

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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.

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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.'

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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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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 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.

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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.

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Everybody has a dysfunctional family.

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

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

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

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I'm very particular about what I want.

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I really am a cockeyed optimist.

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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.

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