Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
LILY TOMLINWhat 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.
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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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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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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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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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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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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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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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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You can’t expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it’s a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.
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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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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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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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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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