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
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
Suddenly I burst into song: 'Awe, sweet mystery of life, at last I found thee...' And I felt so good inside and my heart felt so full, I decided I would set time aside each day to do awe-robics. Because at the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time.
Reality is nothing more than a collective hunch.
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket - The road to success is always under construction
We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.
The larger picture is really to swing people's awareness of what really is moral.
It's a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn't really happened, but it has come closer.
Thank God kids never mean well
I still believe that sex is dirty. It's just that now I wouldn't have it any other way.
Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it's imposssible to keep up.