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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.
Lily Tomlin
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Lily Tomlin
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: September 1
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Detroit
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Mary Jean Tomlin
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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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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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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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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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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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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I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.
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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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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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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.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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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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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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When I've had a meltdown, people will say to me, Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.
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