Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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
Success
Funny
Sometimes
World
Congratulations
Mediocre
Worried
Worry
Successful
More quotes by Lily Tomlin
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
There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
Lily Tomlin
Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.
Lily Tomlin
No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up.
Lily Tomlin
What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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.
Lily Tomlin
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.
Lily Tomlin
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.
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
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
You are what you think ... geez, that's frightening.
Lily Tomlin
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Lily Tomlin
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
Lily Tomlin
Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
Lily Tomlin
I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.
Lily Tomlin
I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
Lily Tomlin
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
Lily Tomlin