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
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
The thing that most distresses me is whenever I see things over sexualized, I worry about young girls. Some of the fall out of the feminist movement is that it made younger and younger girls more sexually available. It's part of the philosophy, be your own person and be free. But, girls are so over sexualized in this culture.
To me, "sexual freedom" means freedom from having to have sex.
You are what you think ... geez, that’s frightening....
The formula for water is H2O. Is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared?
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.
If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
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.
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.
There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.