3 Lily Tomlin Quotes on Privacy

Lily Tomlin quotes on privacy

16. 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.

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.

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.