Lily Tomlin quotes - page 3

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. (Lily Tomlin)
Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing. View quote
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else. View quote
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I swear people don't want sex so much as they want somebody who'll listen to 'em ... the first thing you learn after fellatio is how to listen. View quote
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After all, in private, we're all misfits. View quote
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The larger picture is really to swing people's awareness of what really is moral. View quote
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We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company. View quote
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It's a more ridiculing, divisive humor today. View quote
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It's so crazy not to do the human thing. It seems to me to be much more profitable to do the human thing. It just makes a better society. View quote
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Jane took me to another level because she's truly a wonderful writer. View quote
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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought. (Lily Tomlin)
Some journalists are just motivated by their own sense of what they want to say or what they feel comfortable saying or writing about. In '77, I was on the cover of Time. View quote
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We just sort of clicked. We became a couple right away. View quote
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Listen, I have no judgment about anything. Some people will bring certain celebrities up to me who are presumably - or known to be - gay and ask "Why don't they come out?" But we don't know why they don't, and it's none of our business, really. View quote
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I respect her talent and her brain and who she is as a person - and that kind of admiration and respect is a big factor in binding someone in a relationship. View quote
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What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch. View quote
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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. View quote
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use. View quote
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains. View quote
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I grew up in a time when women didn't really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You had to play a stereotype, because very attractive women were not supposed to be funny - because it's powerful; it's a threat. View quote
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I guess that's one of the reasons that you do it - work all the time - because it's sort of a high to find something that really works. (Lily Tomlin)
I mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting. View quote
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types. View quote
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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. View quote
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I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war. View quote
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