The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
LILY TOMLINEven when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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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 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 if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
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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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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
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9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn’t really happened, but it has come closer.
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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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If evolution was worth its salt, it should’ve evolved something better than ‘survival of the fittest.’ I think a better idea would be ‘survival of the wittiest.’ At least, that way, creatures that didn’t survive could’ve died laughing.
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If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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