Metro Weekly interview (2006)
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Referring to her teenage diary, in an interview in Movie magazine (July 1983)
“Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.”
Contributions of Jane Wagner
“Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.”
As "Chrissy"
Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
“Your problem is your role models were models.”
Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
As "Trudy"
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)
The Advocate interview (2005)
“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)
As quoted in Variety magazine (2003)
“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)
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
The Advocate interview (2005)
The Advocate interview (2005)
“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
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)
Closing line of her skits as "Edith Ann", on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1969 - 1973), and in later productions.
