Lily Tomlin Quotes - Page 4

Quotes about:

• The thing that most distresses me is whenever I see things over sexualized, I worry about young girls. Some of the fall out of the feminist movement is that it made younger and younger girls more sexually available. It's part of the philosophy, be your own person and be free. But, girls are so over sexualized in this culture.

  Lily Tomlin

  Girl, Philosophy, Fall

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

  6 Copy quote

• Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.

  Lily Tomlin

  Character, Creating, Use

  Interview with Maggie Ryan Sandford, www.avclub.com. February 11, 2011.

  8 Copy quote

• Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It's just a matter of timing. It's like you've marked your territory.

  Lily Tomlin

  Real, Territory, Matter

  Source: www.avclub.com

  6 Copy quote

• 9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn't really happened, but it has come closer.

  Lily Tomlin

  Equal Pay, People, Made

  Interview with Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. April 26, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Lily Tomlin

  Confused, Way, Steps

  4 Copy quote

• I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.

  Lily Tomlin

  Cynical, Trying, Hard

  5 Copy quote

• What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.

  Lily Tomlin

  Thinking, Appreciate, Brain

  Interview with Maggie Ryan Sandford, www.avclub.com. February 11, 2011.

  5 Copy quote

• 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.

  Lily Tomlin

  Funny, Interesting, Serendipity

  9 Copy quote

• I wonder what it would be like if we all became what we wanted to be when we grew up? I mean, imagine a world filled with nothing but firemen, cowboys, nurses and ballerinas.

  Lily Tomlin

  Mean, Cowboy, Nurse

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  New York, Community, Actresses

  "Lily Tomlin on Robert Altman and knowing Tom Waits on a soul level". Interview with Will Harris, tv.avclub.com. November 2, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

• When I've had a meltdown, people will say to me, "Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor."

  Lily Tomlin

  People, Sense Of Humor, Meltdowns

  Source: www.avclub.com

  6 Copy quote

• The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.

  Lily Tomlin

  Kings, Queens, Phones

  15 Copy quote

• In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone

  Lily Tomlin

  Heart, Night, Solitude

  5 Copy quote

• When we talk to god, it's prayer. When god talks to us, it's schizophrenia.

  Lily Tomlin

  Prayer, Schizophrenia

  8 Copy quote

• If evolution was worth its salt, it should've evolved something better than 'survival of the fittest.' I think a better idea would be 'survival of the wittiest.' At least, that way, creatures that didn't survive could've died laughing.

  Lily Tomlin

  Thinking, Ideas, Laughing

  "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe". Play by Jane Wagner, 1985.

  5 Copy quote

• It's a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.

  Lily Tomlin

  Today

  Interview with Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. April 26, 2006.

  6 Copy quote

• 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. You know you can't go back next week and fix it. Whereas in a live audience you know it's so in the moment and you just go with what's happening. First of all you never have to see it again so you don't know if you were really fulfilling it or not.

  Lily Tomlin

  Next Week, Cameras, Littles

  "Lily Tomlin, actress & comedian". Interview with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. February 27, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

• The whole idea of being in captivity in such limited space, especially in a zoo, causes elephants to suffer. They develop all kinds of foot diseases. They die. They get cysts. Not only is it painful, it eventually kills them.

  Lily Tomlin

  Zoos, Elephants, Ideas

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

  27 Copy quote

• 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

  What If, Might, Boring

  Movie Magazine Interview, July 1983.

  9 Copy quote

• 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.

  Lily Tomlin

  Intelligent, Winning, Play

  4 Copy quote

• I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.

  Lily Tomlin

  Expression, Culture, Social

  Interview with Maggie Ryan Sandford, www.avclub.com. February 11, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

• I never thought of myself as any kind of a film star, as many films as I've made - and I've made some really fun movies with good people. I've always been paired with someone because I'm not really box office, in that carrying-a-picture sense. I've always been busy, but not in the spotlight.

  Lily Tomlin

  Stars, Fun, People

  Source: deadline.com

  4 Copy quote

• Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.

  Lily Tomlin

  Complaining, Needs, Language

  5 Copy quote

• Sexual freedom and liberation has to be of your own making. I'm stunned when I hear about friends' children, ten or twelve years old giving blow jobs. I just don't like the girls being used or exploited in that way. It's just indiscriminate sexual relating. It's just the isolated things.

  Lily Tomlin

  Girl, Jobs, Children

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

  4 Copy quote

• People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.

  Lily Tomlin

  People, Culture, Kind

  Source: deadline.com

  4 Copy quote

Page 4 of 5

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin