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
The larger picture is really to swing people's awareness of what really is moral.
I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company.
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
If you can't be direct, why be?
Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They'd eaten each other.
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.
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.