When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
LILY TOMLINI try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that’s the truth.
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If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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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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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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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.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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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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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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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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