Latest Lily Tomlin Quotes from Interviews

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• 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

  Girl, Jobs, Children

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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

  People, Different, Kind

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• The thing that most distresses me is whenever I see things over sexualized, I worry about young girls. Some of the fall out of the feminist movement is that it made younger and younger girls more sexually available. It's part of the philosophy, be your own person and be free. But, girls are so over sexualized in this culture.

  Lily Tomlin

  Girl, Philosophy, Fall

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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

  Animal, Self, Views

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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.

  Lily Tomlin

  Zoos, Elephants, Ideas

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.

  Lily Tomlin

  Dog, Cat, Suffering

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• I never thought of myself as any kind of a film star, as many films as I've made - and I've made some really fun movies with good people. I've always been paired with someone because I'm not really box office, in that carrying-a-picture sense. I've always been busy, but not in the spotlight.

  Lily Tomlin

  Stars, Fun, People

  Source: deadline.com

• 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

  People, Culture, Kind

  Source: deadline.com

• Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It's just a matter of timing. It's like you've marked your territory.

  Lily Tomlin

  Real, Territory, Matter

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Lily Tomlin

  People, Sense Of Humor, Meltdowns

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn't want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.

  Lily Tomlin

  New York, Community, Actresses

  "Lily Tomlin on Robert Altman and knowing Tom Waits on a soul level". Interview with Will Harris, tv.avclub.com. November 2, 2012.

• And yet humanity is so not evolved that how can you expect anything absolutely major to happen? Look how long, we move ahead in technology, how much do we move ahead in morality or emotion? We move ahead so minimally, minimally, minimally.

  Lily Tomlin

  Moving, Technology, Long

  "Lily Tomlin, actress & comedian". Interview with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. February 27, 2011.

• 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. You know you can't go back next week and fix it. Whereas in a live audience you know it's so in the moment and you just go with what's happening. First of all you never have to see it again so you don't know if you were really fulfilling it or not.

  Lily Tomlin

  Next Week, Cameras, Littles

  "Lily Tomlin, actress & comedian". Interview with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. February 27, 2011.

• 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

  Religious, Real, Feelings

  Interview with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. February 27, 2011.