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All Quotes by author - Vicki Lawrence

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I'd look like Cate Blanchett. "

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

" I feel it is time to lighten up and laugh about things and enjoy ourselves a little bit more. "

" 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?' "

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

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

" 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 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.' "

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

" I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up. "

" I was married for 10 minutes into a Southern family. "

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

" Life is much too serious to be taken seriously. "

" My fans were probably the most therapeutic thing for me. "

" That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say. "

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

" There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit. "

" Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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