216 Quotes by Lily Tomlin

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.

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

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

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.

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

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.

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.

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