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 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.
LILY TOMLINYou are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
LILY TOMLINI think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
LILY TOMLINMaybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
LILY TOMLINWe have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
LILY TOMLINThe trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
LILY TOMLINI worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
LILY TOMLINI worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
LILY TOMLINI was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
LILY TOMLINThere’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
LILY TOMLINCreating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
LILY TOMLINYou 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.
LILY TOMLINThe phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
LILY TOMLINWe are all in this together, by ourselves.
LILY TOMLINIf I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
LILY TOMLINI still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
LILY TOMLIN