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 whole idea of being in captivity in such limited space, especially in a zoo, causes elephants to suffer. They develop all kinds of foot diseases. They die. They get cysts. Not only is it painful, it eventually kills them.
Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it's imposssible to keep up.
Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.
9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn't really happened, but it has come closer.
I still believe that sex is dirty. It's just that now I wouldn't have it any other way.
It's a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
If evolution was worth its salt, it should've evolved something better than 'survival of the fittest.' I think a better idea would be 'survival of the wittiest.' At least, that way, creatures that didn't survive could've died laughing.
Reality is nothing more than a collective hunch.
I especially love 'Web Therapy' and I did 'Eastbound and Down' too. I had a lot of fun doing that.
I guess that's one of the reasons that you do it - work all the time - because it's sort of a high to find something that really works.
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.
I was always empathetic with animals. It's a terrible and self-involved point of view that we do something because someone else is exploitable.
When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.