The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
LILY TOMLINThe trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
LILY TOMLINMy politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
LILY TOMLINWe have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
LILY TOMLINI always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
LILY TOMLINWhen 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.
LILY TOMLINTruth 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 TOMLINYou are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
LILY TOMLINReality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
LILY TOMLINThe road to success is always under construction.
LILY TOMLINI try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
LILY TOMLINI 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 TOMLINI was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
LILY TOMLINMaybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
LILY TOMLINIf you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
LILY TOMLINInstead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
LILY TOMLINThere’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
LILY TOMLIN