Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Lily Tomlin
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Lily Tomlin
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: September 1
Actress
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Mary Jean Tomlin
Mary Jean Lily Tomlin
Truth
Makeup
Book
Humorous
Come
Library
Done
Hair
Beauty
Reading
Funny
Librarian
Inspirational
Witty
More quotes by 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
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
Lily Tomlin
I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.
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
When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy then you get two feelings for the price of one.
Lily Tomlin
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.
Lily Tomlin
What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
Lily Tomlin
After all, in private, we're all misfits
Lily Tomlin
There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn't do it right'.
Lily Tomlin
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
Lily Tomlin
I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.
Lily Tomlin
If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
Lily Tomlin
Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
Lily Tomlin
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
Lily Tomlin
If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.
Lily Tomlin
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
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
No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up.
Lily Tomlin
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Lily Tomlin
I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
Lily Tomlin