Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic? Lily Tomlin More Quotes by Lily Tomlin More Quotes From Lily Tomlin Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry. Lily Tomlin new-yorkers devils-advocate sorry I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't. Lily Tomlin life-is beautiful thinking Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers. Lily Tomlin intelligent winning play Thank God kids never mean well Lily Tomlin thank-god mean kids Reality is nothing more than a collective hunch. Lily Tomlin hunches collectives reality 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. Lily Tomlin what-if boring might 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 self views animal 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 cameras littles next-week I grew up in a time when women didn't really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You had to play a stereotype, because very attractive women were not supposed to be funny - because it's powerful; it's a threat. Lily Tomlin you women time funny What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch. Lily Tomlin collective anyway just reality When I was 9 or 10, I had a ten-cent business: I would walk your dog for a dime, go to the store for a dime, empty your garbage for a dime - and then I could use the money to buy tricks at the magic store. Lily Tomlin walk money business dog It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. Lily Tomlin deep need language belief
