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 TOMLINDid you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
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I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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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.
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Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
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Wouldn’t it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
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You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what’s current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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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.
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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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.
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