Quotes from Vicki Lawrence

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.

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

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

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

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 don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.

I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know - every audience has its own personality.

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

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.'

My fans were probably the most therapeutic thing for me.

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

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

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

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

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.

CIU is not something to just tolerate. It's important to find an allergist or dermatologist who can work with you to help manage your condition.

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.

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.

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 was really a shy kid.

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

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

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.

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?'