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“Your problem is your role models were models.”

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)

“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)

“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)

“There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.”

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 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)

“For fast acting relief, try slowing down.”

Contributions of Jane Wagner

“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.
Metro Weekly interview (2006)

“And that's the truth!”

Closing line of her skits as "Edith Ann", on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1969 - 1973), and in later productions.