Quote

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.

Lily Tomlin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Instead
Dies
Working
Wittiest
Fittest
Survival
Laughing

More quotes by Lily Tomlin

Image
Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
Lily Tomlin
Image
I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
Lily Tomlin
Image
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
Image
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.
Lily Tomlin
Image
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
Image
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin
Image
I worry about kids today - because of the sexual revolution, they're going to grow up and never know what dirty means.
Lily Tomlin
Image
There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
Lily Tomlin
Image
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Lily Tomlin
Image
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Lily Tomlin
Image
If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
Lily Tomlin
Image
9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn't really happened, but it has come closer.
Lily Tomlin
Image
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
Image
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
Lily Tomlin
Image
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.
Lily Tomlin
Image
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
Image
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.
Lily Tomlin
Image
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
Lily Tomlin
Image
If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.
Lily Tomlin
Image
Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
Lily Tomlin