If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
LILY TOMLINIf trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
-
-
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
LILY TOMLIN -
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
LILY TOMLIN -
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.
LILY TOMLIN -
It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
LILY TOMLIN -
I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
LILY TOMLIN -
I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
LILY TOMLIN -
I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves; I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
LILY TOMLIN -
Truth is, I’ve always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
LILY TOMLIN -
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
LILY TOMLIN -
Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
LILY TOMLIN -
I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn’t want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.
LILY TOMLIN -
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
LILY TOMLIN -
If evolution was worth its salt, it should’ve evolved something better than ‘survival of the fittest.’ I think a better idea would be ‘survival of the wittiest.’ At least, that way, creatures that didn’t survive could’ve died laughing.
LILY TOMLIN -
Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
LILY TOMLIN -
Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
LILY TOMLIN