8 Lily Tomlin Quotes on Identity

Lily Tomlin quotes on identity

17. Listen, I have no judgment about anything. Some people will bring certain celebrities up to me who are presumably - or known to be - gay and ask 'Why don't they come out?' But we don't know why they don't, and it's none of our business, really. In '75 I was making the Modern Scream album, and Jane and I were in the studio. My publicist called me and said 'Time will give you the cover if you'll come out.' I was more offended than anything that they thought we'd make a deal. But that was '75 - it would have been a hard thing to do at that time.

35. All my life, I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

37. Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

40. Your problem is your role models were models.

48. I may be schizophrenic, but I'll always have each other.

49. I never officially came out in any kind of really public way. I just always lived very simply and openly, but the press has never made a big fuss about me or said anything to me... In some ways I don't even identify myself in any kind of limited way. I don't want to. I wish none of us had to. I wish we were just people.

58. Have I reached the party to whom I am speaking?

64. You are not dealing with just anyone's fool. I am a high-school graduate.