Quote

No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up.

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
Cynical
Keep
Matter

More quotes by Lily Tomlin

Image
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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
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
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
Lily Tomlin
Image
Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
Lily Tomlin
Image
Thank God kids never mean well
Lily Tomlin
Image
There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn't do it right'.
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
Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
Lily Tomlin
Image
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
Lily Tomlin
Image
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
Lily Tomlin
Image
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
Lily Tomlin
Image
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
Lily Tomlin
Image
If you can't be direct, why be?
Lily Tomlin
Image
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.
Lily Tomlin
Image
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.
Lily Tomlin
Image
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
Image
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
Image
The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
Lily Tomlin
Image
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.
Lily Tomlin