Lily Tomlin: Regular Performer

Quotes 

• Lily Tomlin : I do believe in getting involved just so long as the involvement is a tasteful one. Why, I even have a "Fight Poverty" sticker on my Rolls-Royce.

• Ernestine, the telephone operator : You are not dealing with just anyone's fool. I am a high-school graduate.

• Ernestine, the telephone operator : [talking to someone at Los Angeles City Hall while trying to get hold of Mayor Yorty]  Tell me, is this Mr. Yorty on the lam or something?... Oh, he's, uh, a publicly elected official? Well, who elected him, Pan-Am?

  [laughs and snorts] 

  Ernestine, the telephone operator : Hello? Hello? Hello?...