I hear from many a man around Halloween that's dressed up as Mama for Halloween. It's a great costume.
— Vicki Lawrence
I feel it is time to lighten up and laugh about things and enjoy ourselves a little bit more.
I remember being totally enamored with Sid Caesar.
RuPaul knew details of the 'Burnett Show' that even surprised me.
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.
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.
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.
When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
It's always good to play tennis with a better player to bring out the best in you.
I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
My fans were probably the most therapeutic thing for me.
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.
Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
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.
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.
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.
Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
I am opinionated and want to be part of the conversations.
There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
I never got to Broadway. I would love to do that.
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?'
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.
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 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.
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.
I've been at it since 1967, and I still love it. There is nothing quite like making people laugh.
I don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.
I had a hit talk show. I just wasn't working for the right people.
I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know - every audience has its own personality.
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.
I think I'm pretty average. Typical.
I love to cook. I'm a sailor. And I was the eighth-grade ping-pong champion.
Dick Clark and I had such a hysterical relationship with each other.
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.
I've always thought George Carlin was brilliant.
I've really enjoyed doing 'Annie Get Your Gun' and loved Neil Simon stuff like 'Chapter Two.'
It's just kinda what I did: played crazy old ladies.
I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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 found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.
I am no prude, but when I watch comedy, I ask myself, 'Who wrote this? A teenage boy in the locker room?'
I was really a shy kid.
I don't know how anyone could stop working.
Harvey Korman was like a private tutor to me. He was such a mentor.
'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
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.
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.'
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?
When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.
