Lily Tomlin Quotes

I think that I have sold out sometimes.

Don’t put yourself in a situation where you will not be able to achieve your ideals without violating them.

I've had too many opportunities to sell out.

No one can establish what selling out is.

I don't know how to sell out. If I tried to sell out I don't think I could.

The devil is compromise.

Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.

Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn't exist.

A little hypocrisy is better than losing.

I'm never gonna sell my soul or violate myself for no amount of dollars or fame.

I've always said it's easier for bands to make a hard stance - like, we don't do commercials or whatever, blah blah blah - when you've sold billions of records. It's super-easy to be righteous when you're rich.

I'm not in this to make money. I would not have sold my soul to be on 'American Idol.'

Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward.

My moral standing is lying down.

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.

Writers are always selling somebody out.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out.

I've got an overly developed sense of what selling out is, and I of course worry about it too much.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That's how it would feel to me.