I feel it is time to lighten up and laugh about things and enjoy ourselves a little bit more.
Vicki Lawrence
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?'
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 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.
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 do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I'd look like Cate Blanchett.
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.'
Life is much too serious to be taken seriously.
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 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 love to cook. I'm a sailor. And I was the eighth-grade ping-pong champion.
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.
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.
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.
Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
I've been at it since 1967, and I still love it. There is nothing quite like making people laugh.
There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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 wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
I hear from many a man around Halloween that's dressed up as Mama for Halloween. It's a great costume.
I had a hit talk show. I just wasn't working for the right people.
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.
Dick Clark and I had such a hysterical relationship with each other.
'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
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?'
My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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.
I really am a cockeyed optimist.
People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.
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.
I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.
I am no prude, but when I watch comedy, I ask myself, 'Who wrote this? A teenage boy in the locker room?'
I think it is a universal problem that we are so often cruel to the people we love.
I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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.
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 was married for 10 minutes into a Southern family.
I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.
Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.
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.'
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.'
Everybody has a dysfunctional family.
A lot of the things that loved ones say to each other, friends would never accept.
I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.
This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
I'm very particular about what I want.
My parents raised me to believe that when one door slams in your face, turn around because there's probably another door opening up somewhere.
