Lily Tomlin Quotes
"There will be sex after death - we just won't be able to feel it."
"I've been around a long time, and I interviewed with a lot of the same people over and over. I was always direct and open about my life. I would always reference Jane [Wagner] and everything, but they never choose to write about it that way -- just like they never wrote about Jack Kennedy and the women in the swimming pool. It was the times, but the media culture has changed."
I remember back in the 70s during my really assertive days someone took me to dinner with Lola Falana. And she was talking about her backup dancers; she kept calling them her "boy dancers" so my guard was already up. Then she said "I also like John. He's a real purse nelly". I said "Excuse me? What did you just say". I was ready to go to battle. "You know," she says in her thick accent. "Purse Nelly! Pursnelly!" Then I realized she was saying he had a good personality.
"Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?"
(when asked about her complexion during her "Laugh-In" days) "I've never had a pimple in my whole life - and that's the truth."
