Lily Tomlin

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.

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?

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 I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.

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.

We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company.

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.

We're all in this alone.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch.

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.

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.

If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.

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 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.

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

I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.

Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.

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.

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.

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.