Lily Tomlin
Overview
Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an American actress, comedienne, writer, and producer
Theatrical producer
A theatrical producer is the person ultimately responsible for overseeing all aspects of mounting a theatre production. The independent producer will usually be the originator and finder of the script and starts the whole process...

. Tomlin has been a major force in American comedy since the late 1960's when she began a career as a stand up comedian and became a featured performer on television's Laugh-in. Her career has spanned television, comedy recordings, Broadway, and motion pictures, enjoying acclaimed success in each medium.
Quotations

I've seen these women all my life, I know how they walk, I know how they talk...

Response of a gay character asked how she felt playing a heterosexual, on her album Modern Scream (1975)

Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.

Modern Scream (1975)

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

As Judith Beasley in The Incredible Shrinking Woman|The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)

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.

Referring to her teenage diary, in an interview in Movie magazine (July 1983)

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.

As quoted in Variety magazine (2003)

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.

When you talk about yourself for 35 years, first of all, it gets repetitious. And then it seems a little bit excessive, at the least.

People think there's some real subversive thing playing against whoever it is; a lot of it is just people who want to go along and get along. And they also want to make money. And the bottom line is, they're going to put out as much stuff as they can — stupid, banal stuff that makes money.

The larger picture is really to swing people's awareness of what really is moral. ... There are great clergy-people who absolutely do not agree with this. It's not whether God is on our side or whether we're doing God's will, it's being so narcissistic as to think that God is telling you what to do.

 
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