Remember we’re all in this alone.
LILY TOMLINSometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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.
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that’s the truth.
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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The road to success is always under construction.
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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You can’t expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it’s a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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