Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
LILY TOMLINCreating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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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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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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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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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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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 don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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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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People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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But 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.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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