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LILY TOMLINI 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.
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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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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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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When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
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Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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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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What goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
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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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People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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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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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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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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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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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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