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

Lily Tomlin

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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
Express
Characters
Creating
Type
Use
Another
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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.
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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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.
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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.
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They'd eaten each other.
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
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Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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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.
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There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn't do it right'.
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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.
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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.
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There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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