Lily Tomlin

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

Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.

We went to a Southern Baptist church. When I was a small child, until I was about 8 or 9 years old, I worried if I didn't go forward and get saved every Sunday — which I couldn't do, it was absolutely too humiliating to see these adults flailing and beating their breasts and sobbing, and I thought, Oh, my God, this is so ridiculous, so embarrassing — I could never bring myself to go forward. And I'd think, Oh, my God, if I don't go next Sunday, if the end of the world comes, I'll go to hell. And that's is a pretty hard thing for a 7- or 8-year-old to carry all the time

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

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.

Interviewer: You once said you had a drug problem... Lily: Yeah, I still do. It's so hard to find good grass these days.

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

Jalan menuju sukses selalu dalam pembangunan.

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

"I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody."

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.

Some journalists are just motivated by their own sense of what they want to say or what they feel comfortable saying or writing about. In '77, I was on the cover of Time. The same week I had a big story in Newsweek. In one of the magazines it says I live alone, and the other magazine said I live with Jane Wagner. Unless you were so really adamantly out, and had made some declaration at some press conference, people back then didn't write about your relationship.

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.

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

Remember we're all in this alone.