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
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.
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.
You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what's current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.
When we talk to god, it's prayer. When god talks to us, it's schizophrenia.
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket - The road to success is always under construction
If beauty is truth, why don't women go to the library to have their hair done?
When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.
The road to success is always under construction.
My space chums think my unique hookup with humanity could be evolution's awkward attempt to jump-start itself up again. They're thinking just maybe, going crazy could be the evolutionary process trying to hurry up mind expansion. Maybe my mind didn't snap. Maybe it was just trying to stretch itself into a new shape. The cerebral cortex trying to grow a thumb of sorts.
If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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.