Vicki Lawrence Quotes

#1. 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.'

Vicki Lawrence

#2. 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

#3. George Butterick said, "Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking. . . . And in the deepest mood is friendship held in reverence.

Marilyn Wilson

#4. A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Jean Racine

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

Vicki Lawrence

#6. For all of my life, I've had this one song in my head, and I'm still trying to write it. I'm still trying to get that song out. I'm getting closer, every record I get a little bit closer to saying it the way I want to say it.

Torquil Campbell

#7. Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.

Bryant H. McGill

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

Vicki Lawrence

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

Vicki Lawrence

#10. A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

H.L. Mencken

#11. 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

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

Vicki Lawrence

#13. He had a punch like a bag full of cue balls.

Dennis Lehane

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

Vicki Lawrence

#15. 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

#16. If you're heading downtown from Centeral Park, my advice is to take the subway. Flying pigs are faster but way more dangerous

Rick Riordan

#17. Life is much too serious to be taken seriously.

Vicki Lawrence

#18. 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

#19. A saint without love is like a star without light.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Vicki Lawrence

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

Vicki Lawrence

#22. They said something funny. They said, 'Even God leaves on the last boat from Nome.' What does that mean?

Marcus Sedgwick

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

Vicki Lawrence

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

Vicki Lawrence

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

Vicki Lawrence

#26. I'm a powerful being ... a wizard," Corny said. "So don't try anything."
"Yes," said the little faery, blinking black eyes rapidly. "No. Try nothing.

Holly Black

#27. I was married for 10 minutes into a Southern family.

Vicki Lawrence

#28. the skin like velvet over steel,

Roan Parrish

#29. Any academic skill is quickly achievable if charged with clear purpose and an appeal to enthusiastic self-interest. Tarzan of the Apes only needed about twenty minutes to figure out how to read the beautiful Jane Porter's cursive writing.

T.K. Naliaka

#30. When people clap for me I say, don't clap for me, clap for what God has done.

Danny Trejo

#31. 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