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

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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
Characters
Creating
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Use
Another
Character
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Express

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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.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.
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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.
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No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up.
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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.
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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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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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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.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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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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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Nobody is here without a reason. I always had a different sensibility. I like a huge range of comedy - from broad and farcical, the most sensitive, the most understated - but I always wanted my comedy to be more embracing of the species rather than debasing of it.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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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.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.
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I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.
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