Quotes from Lily Tomlin

If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?

Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

I grew up in a time when women didn't really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You had to play a stereotype, because very attractive women were not supposed to be funny - because it's powerful; it's a threat.

The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody.

We're all in this together - by ourselves.

Many times I sit back and say, 'I can't believe that this is my life!' Other times, I feel self-satisfied. I mean, there's a lot to be proud and thankful for but, nonetheless, it's just a life!

What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch.

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.

Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

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.

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.

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

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.

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.

I think 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.

I never officially came out in any kind of really public way. I just always lived very simply and openly, but the press has never made a big fuss about me or said anything to me.

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth.

I especially love 'Web Therapy' and I did 'Eastbound and Down' too. I had a lot of fun doing that.

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.