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 TOMLINTo me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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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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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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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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You 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.
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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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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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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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