Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
LILY TOMLINBeing a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
LILY TOMLINBut there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
LILY TOMLINEven when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
LILY TOMLINNo matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
LILY TOMLINWhen I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
LILY TOMLINInstead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
LILY TOMLINIf beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
LILY TOMLINInfinity is just time on an ego trip.
LILY TOMLINEvery day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
LILY TOMLINDoes your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
LILY TOMLINPeople hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
LILY TOMLINI can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
LILY TOMLINSuccess is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
LILY TOMLINI 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.
LILY TOMLINWe don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
LILY TOMLINI like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
LILY TOMLIN