If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
LILY TOMLINEvery day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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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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Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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My 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.
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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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When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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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.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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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 bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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