Quotes by Vicki Lawrence - Page 2

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.
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Flow
Lucky
Me Feel Never
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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.
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Eastern
Planned
Trip
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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?'
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Humorous
Life Me My Life
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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.
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Solutions
Important People Know
Dealing
People Important Real
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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.
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Feel Good
Make Me Laugh
Good Feel Good Me
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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?
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Deserve
Guests
Tabloid
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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.
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Archie
Bunker
Never Take
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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.
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Demise
Rewriting
Conway
Plotting
Prop
Tim
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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.
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Grand Canyon
Canyon
Grand
Mandatory
Mount
Trips
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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.
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Crew
Mama
Show Business
Family Work Business
Burnett
Carol
Carol Burnett
Pretend
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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.'
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Mama
Family Opportunity Me
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I want to be open about my condition to show others that they are not alone in dealing with this form of chronic hives. My advice for people with CIU is to talk to their doctor about their condition.
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Condition
Chronic
Dealing
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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.
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Letterman
David
Board
David Letterman
Oprah
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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?'
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Thanksgiving
Dishes
Outrageous
Doin
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What I learned was that celebrities come to me with a preconceived notion. They think I'm fun, or they've worked with me, or they know me, or we've met. So there's a lot of backstuff on the 'Vicki!' show.
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Notion
Me Fun Know
Celebrities
Preconceived
Preconceived Notion
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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.
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Show Business
Best Business Me
Picked
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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.
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Privacy
Better People Feel
Total
Fools
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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.'
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Flew
Goodness
Agent
Day People New
Gate
Plane
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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.
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Mama
Burnett
Writers
Mothers
Old Enough
Sketches
Turned
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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.
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Everyone Else
Same Things
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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.
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Mama
Time Face Me
Actual
Miss
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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.
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Fun Stuff
Burnett
Fondly
Remembers
Stayed
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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.
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Appreciate
Mama
Offended
Old Lady
Grandmothers
Helps
Lady
Says
Young People
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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.
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Network
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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.'
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Appreciative
First Time
Grandma
Montana
Teaching
Love Time First Time
Played
Coming
Hannah
Sponge
Veterans
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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.
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
War
Bases
Eating
Flew
Mess
Next
Troops
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Little
Ate
Whatever
Guys
Hospital
Maybe
Serve
Slept
Visit
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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.
Vicki Lawrence / Actress
Burnett
Missed
Mommy
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