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 TOMLINThe road to success is always under construction.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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What goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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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 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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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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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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Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
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