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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.
Lily Tomlin
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Lily Tomlin
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: September 1
Actress
Film Actor
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Detroit
Michigan
Mary Jean Tomlin
Mary Jean Lily Tomlin
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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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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.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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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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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 personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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.
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You can't expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it's a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.
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Thank God kids never mean well
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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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There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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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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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They'd eaten each other.
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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.
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After all, in private, we're all misfits
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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.
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No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up.
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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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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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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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