Lily Tomlin
Lily Tomlin
Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer and producer. Tomlin began her career as a stand-up comedian, and performing Off-Broadway during the 1960s. Her breakout role was performing as a cast member on the variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1970 until 1973. She currently stars on the Netflix series Grace and Frankie as Frankie Bergstein. Her performance as Frankie garnered her nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth1 September 1939
CityDetroit, MI
CountryUnited States of America
I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.
I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining.
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.
Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
To me, "sexual freedom" means freedom from having to have sex.
We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.
There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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.
No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
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.
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
I never thought of myself as any kind of a film star, as many films as I've made - and I've made some really fun movies with good people. I've always been paired with someone because I'm not really box office, in that carrying-a-picture sense. I've always been busy, but not in the spotlight.