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 TOMLINIf beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves; I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
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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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9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn’t really happened, but it has come closer.
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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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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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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 the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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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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