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“Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.”

Lily Tomlin

As "Trudy"
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Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)

“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework”

Lily Tomlin

Contributions of Jane Wagner, As Edith Ann

“Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them.”

Lily Tomlin

“The best mind-altering drug is truth.”

Lily Tomlin

Contributions of Jane Wagner

“If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?”

Lily Tomlin

Contributions of Jane Wagner

“We're all in this alone.”

Lily Tomlin

Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
Variant: Remember we're all in this alone.

“Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.”

Lily Tomlin

Contributions of Jane Wagner

“Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.”

Lily Tomlin

As "Trudy"
Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)

“After all, in private, we're all misfits”

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“Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?”

Lily Tomlin

Saturday Night Live (1975)

“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.”

Lily Tomlin

Metro Weekly interview (2006)

“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

Referring to her teenage diary, in an interview in Movie magazine (July 1983)

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

Lily Tomlin

Contributions of Jane Wagner

“If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.”

Lily Tomlin

Contributions of Jane Wagner

“Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.”

Lily Tomlin

As "Chrissy"
Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)

“Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.”

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Modern Scream (1975)

“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.”

Lily Tomlin

The Advocate interview (2005)

“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.”

Lily Tomlin

The Advocate interview (2005)

“Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.”

Lily Tomlin

Saturday Night Live (1975)

“I swear people don't want sex so much as they want somebody who'll listen to 'em … the first thing you learn after fellatio is how to listen.”

Lily Tomlin

Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)