Top 100 Tomlin Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Tomlin

#1. I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.

#2. I always just wanted to be a movie actress, like Lily Tomlin or Ruth Gordon. I just imagined myself being in a movie, wearing stylish women's clothing the way I saw Amy Irving wearing it.

Jenny Slate

#3. If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got worse, I'm not sure how I would have slept that night.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. I grew up idolizing Madeline Kahn and Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett, Ruth Gordon, Rosalind Russell, Amy Irving, women who were stylish and real actresses who did real work and could not be replaced with anyone else. You cannot cast anyone else in Madeline Kahn's roles.

Jenny Slate

#5. A lot of people live with no apparent means of support. I kind of envy the musicians up there. You're down here, busting your ass in Hollywood, and it's like Lily Tomlin's joke about the rat race - all you prove in the end is that you're a rat.

Kurt Voss

#6. I'm such a fan of Lily's Tomlin, for so many years. I feel like Lily was the first popular mainstream crossover comedian who also was kind of an overtly feminist comedian.

Tina Fey

#7. I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." Lily Tomlin

E.C. Sheedy

#8. If you watch [The] Search for Signs of Intelligent Life [in the Universe], or The Incredible Shrinking Woman, or 9 to 5, there is a lot of gender politics at the forefront of Lily Tomlin work, which was kind of thrilling for me to be watching as a 10-, 11-, 12-year-old kid.

Tina Fey

#9. If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Lily Tomlin

#10. I always wanted to be something, but now I see I should have been more specific.

Lily Tomlin

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

Lily Tomlin

#12. No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up.

Lily Tomlin

#13. After all, in private, we're all misfits

Lily Tomlin

#14. When we talk to god, it's prayer. When god talks to us, it's schizophrenia.

Lily Tomlin

#15. 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.

Lily Tomlin

#16. There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn't do it right'.

Lily Tomlin

#17. I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. And then I realized I was somebody.

Lily Tomlin

#18. And If our God is for us, then who could ever stop us, and if our God is with us, then what can stand against?

Chris Tomlin

#19. The larger picture is really to swing people's awareness of what really is moral.

Lily Tomlin

#20. Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

Lily Tomlin

#21. We don't live in our fears. We live in our hopes.

Mike Tomlin

#22. I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

Lily Tomlin

#23. 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.

Lily Tomlin

#24. In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone

Lily Tomlin

#25. Two reasons I come down here every year: the food and there are multiple guys here every year.

Mike Tomlin

#26. 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.

Lily Tomlin

#27. Remember we're all in this alone.

Lily Tomlin

#28. 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!

Lily Tomlin

#29. We're all in this together alone.

Lily Tomlin

#30. Worship comes from a thankful heart.

Chris Tomlin

#31. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom--for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself. Declaration of Arbroath (1320)

J.R. Tomlin

#32. 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.

Lily Tomlin

#33. Sometimes i worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Lily Tomlin

#34. What goes up must come down. But don't expect it to come down where you can find it.

Lily Tomlin

#35. 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.

Lily Tomlin

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

Lily Tomlin

#37. Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.

Lily Tomlin

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

Lily Tomlin

#39. I'm not a religious person. I don't have any desire. To me it's imitative of a conventional culture. I'm all for it for anybody. I totally have a free and open feeling about how other humans want to live their lives. It's just not something that has any real significance for me.

Lily Tomlin

#40. God, Jack, it makes you want to go out and convert the whole damn world to homosexuality," she told him. "Just so you can walk down the street with your head up. "Maybe

Lily Tomlin Ann Bannon

#41. If you can't be direct, why be?

Lily Tomlin

#42. Jesus Messiah, name above all names, blessed Redeemer, Emmanuel, the rescue for sinners, the ransom from Heaven, Jesus Messiah, Lord of all.

Chris Tomlin

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

Lily Tomlin

#44. When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!

Lily Tomlin

#45. We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.

Lily Tomlin

#46. Sexual freedom and liberation has to be of your own making. I'm stunned when I hear about friends' children, ten or twelve years old giving blow jobs. I just don't like the girls being used or exploited in that way. It's just indiscriminate sexual relating. It's just the isolated things.

Lily Tomlin

#47. I will rise when he calls my name, no more sorrow, no more pain, I will rise on eagles wings before my God; fall on my knees, and rise, I will rise.

Chris Tomlin

#48. 9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn't really happened, but it has come closer.

Lily Tomlin

#49. Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

Lily Tomlin

#50. 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.

Lily Tomlin

#51. More grounded, more humble, more selfless makes us more opportunistic.

Mike Tomlin

#52. No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.

Lily Tomlin

#53. I lift my hands to believe again. You are my refuge. You are my strength. As I pour out my heart, these things I remember, You are faithful, God, forever.

Chris Tomlin

#54. The worship leader God is after is the one whose heart is captured by Him.

Chris Tomlin

#55. What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch.

Lily Tomlin

#56. Everybody with a helmet on is in the mix.

Mike Tomlin

#57. I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They'd eaten each other.

Lily Tomlin

#58. Worship: Where God isn't moved by the quality of our voice but by the condition of our hearts.

Chris Tomlin

#59. It's a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.

Lily Tomlin

#60. I wonder what it would be like if we all became what we wanted to be when we grew up? I mean, imagine a world filled with nothing but firemen, cowboys, nurses and ballerinas.

Lily Tomlin

#61. I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

Lily Tomlin

#62. Music connects with the soul. I think it's the quickest art form to the soul.

Chris Tomlin

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

Lily Tomlin

#64. Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Lily Tomlin

#65. I'll tolerate you until I can replace you.

Mike Tomlin

#66. 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!

Lily Tomlin

#67. Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.

Lily Tomlin

#68. Books like a box of chocolates; each one sweet and unique!

Pamela Tomlin

#69. 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.

Lily Tomlin

#70. Excuses are tools of the incompetent

Mike Tomlin

#71. I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves ... I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we
can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.

Lily Tomlin

#72. I absolutely love everything about Christmas music.

Chris Tomlin

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

Lily Tomlin

#74. If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

Lily Tomlin

#75. Remember: In the end, you're not living to impress your friends or your relatives or your coworkers. All of life is for Jesus.

Chris Tomlin

#76. Growing up in Michigan was fine ... until I realized where I was.

Lily Tomlin

#77. I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining.

Lily Tomlin

#78. We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.

Lily Tomlin

#79. No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

Lily Tomlin

#80. Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?

Lily Tomlin

#81. Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then
we elected them.

Lily Tomlin

#82. I did see the Soul Train picture. That was interesting. I've heard all the jokes. I had it coming.

Mike Tomlin

#83. When I've had a meltdown, people will say to me, "Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor."

Lily Tomlin

#84. I worry about kids today - because of the sexual revolution, they're going to grow up and never know what "dirty" means.

Lily Tomlin

#85. Exercise is for people who can't handle drugs or alcohol.

Lily Tomlin

#86. I'm not concerned about avoiding anything that happened three years ago or worried about letdowns or things of that nature. When you use the term 'letdown' you proceed with the assumption that this is a continuation of something that happened in the past.

Mike Tomlin

#87. You can't expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it's a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.

Lily Tomlin

#88. I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Lily Tomlin

#89. People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.

Lily Tomlin

#90. 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.

Lily Tomlin

#91. If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

Lily Tomlin

#92. Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

Lily Tomlin

#93. People aren't very good listeners, by nature ... Part of being a good communicator is recognizing and understanding that and trying to make the complex simple. I try to capture a concept, an idea or a moment in a few words. If they remember it, job done.

Mike Tomlin

#94. 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.

Lily Tomlin