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
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.
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?