When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
LILY TOMLINMy 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.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
-
-
To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
LILY TOMLIN -
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
LILY TOMLIN -
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 TOMLIN -
If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
LILY TOMLIN -
I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
LILY TOMLIN -
I 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 TOMLIN -
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
LILY TOMLIN -
What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
LILY TOMLIN -
The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
LILY TOMLIN -
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
LILY TOMLIN -
Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
LILY TOMLIN -
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
LILY TOMLIN -
What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
LILY TOMLIN -
Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
LILY TOMLIN -
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
LILY TOMLIN