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Lily Tomlin

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I mean yes 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.


— Lily Tomlin


#camera #captured #chances #daunting #i

I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.


— Lily Tomlin


#drawn #i #more #types

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


— Lily Tomlin


#had #i #known #less #like

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.


— Lily Tomlin


#always #been #i #i always #more

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


— Lily Tomlin


#belief #complain #deep #developed #inner

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.


— Lily Tomlin


#about #being #i #mediocre #sometimes

We are all in this together, by ourselves.


— Lily Tomlin


#together

We're all in this alone.


— Lily Tomlin


What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.


— Lily Tomlin


#appreciate #audience #brains #i #i think

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


#might #revealing #still #too #what if






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Tomlin has received numerous awards including: four primetime Emmys; a special 1977 Tony when Lily Tomlin was appearing in her one woman Broadway show Appearing Nitely; a second Tony as Best Actress two Drama Desk Awards and an Outer Critics Circle Award for her one woman performance in Jane Wagner’s The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe; a CableACE Award for Executive Producing the film adaptation of The Search; a Grammy Award for her comedy album This is a Recording (a collection of Ernestine the Telephone Operator routines) as well as nominations for her subsequent albums Modern Scream And That's the Truth and On Stage; and two Peabody Awards — the first for the ABC television special Edith Ann’s Christmas: Just Say Noël and the second for narrating and executive producing the HBO film The Celluloid Closet. In March 2009 Tomlin received Fenway Health's Dr.

Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin (born September 1 1939) is an American actress comedian writer and producer. She has starred in such films as Nashville Nine to Five All of Me The Beverly Hillbillies Orange County and I Heart Huckabees. She currently stars as Lillie Mae on the ABC sitcom Malibu Country.

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