Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
LILY TOMLINI think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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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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The road to success is always under construction.
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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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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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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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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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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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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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