216 Quotes by Lily Tomlin

What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch.

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.

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

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.

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

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.

I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.

You don't really need to get married, but marriage is awfully nice. Everybody I know who got married, they say it really makes a difference. They feel very, very happy about it.

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.