Lily Tomlin Frases famosas
“O ser humano inventou a linguagem para satisfazer a sua profunda necessidade de se queixar.”
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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“Toda a minha vida quis ser alguém. Agora vejo que devia ter sido mais específica”
All my life I've wanted to be somebody. But I see now I should have been more specific.
citado em "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe: The Broadway Smash Starring Lily Tomlin" - Página 35, de Jane Wagner - Publicado por Harper & Row, 1986, ISBN 0060156732, 9780060156732 - 223 páginas
Lily Tomlin: Frases em inglês
Metro Weekly interview (2006)
Referring to her teenage diary, in an interview in Movie magazine (July 1983)
“Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.”
As "Chrissy"
Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
“Your problem is your role models were models.”
Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
As "Trudy"
Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
“When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.”
As "Trudy"
Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
The Advocate interview (2005)
“I've seen these women all my life, I know how they walk, I know how they talk…”
Response after being asked how she felt playing a heterosexual in Nashville, on her album Modern Scream (1975)
As quoted in Variety magazine (2003)
“I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.”
Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
As Judith Beasley in The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)
“If you can't be direct, why be?”
Recounting what a college classmate said to her when she was acting "insecure and wimpy", as quoted at Tomlin's official site. http://www.lilytomlin.com/lily/quotes.htm
“If the formula for water is H2O, is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared?”
Contributions of Jane Wagner
The Advocate interview (2005)
The Advocate interview (2005)
“If I had known what it would be like to have it all… I might have been willing to settle for less.”
As "Lyn"
Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
“All my life, I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.”
As "Chrissy"
Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
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.
Metro Weekly interview (2006)
Closing line of her skits as "Edith Ann", on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1969 - 1973), and in later productions.
