Quotes About Tina Fey

#1. The first time I went to see a Second City show, I was in awe of everything. I just wanted to touch the same stage that Gilda Radner had walked on. It was sacred ground.

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#2. You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go.

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#3. The idea of being in control for the sake of control is not really important to me. If everyone is sharp and doing what they're doing well, you don't really need to be in control all the time.

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#4. I really want to be the black Tina Fey, where I just am able to produce my own content and produce other content for other minority filmmakers and put their voices on screen and basically be able to have free range to produce.

Issa Rae

#5. Doing one movie every two years is about all I can handle 'cause, being the creator at '30 Rock', my year there starts in the middle of June and goes back around until March.

Tina Fey

#6. The ideal situation for a parent is one that no one has - having a fulfilling job that requires you to work three days a week. It's better for the parents, because they get to spend time with the children and also have a source of pride and achievement - and income - outside the home.

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#7. Children are the soul sucking worst.

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#8. If you're going to expend energy being mad about Photoshop, you'll also have to be mad about earrings. No one's ears are that sparkly!

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#9. I believe in process. I believe that having a really difficult process is more valuable than a good outcome.

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#10. How do you juggle it all' people constantly ask me, with an accusatory look in their eyes. 'You're fucking it all up, aren't you' their eyes say.

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#11. When I was really young, I loved the movie 'White Christmas' - I still do - and I thought Rosemary Clooney was so pretty. When I was, like, nine, I would tell people, 'You know who I kind of look like? Rosemary Clooney.'

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#12. My husband doesn't like to fly. He does fly now because he doesn't want our daughter to grow up thinking he is a Don Knotts character. But when we were first married, he didn't fly.

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#13. If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: who cares?

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#14. The upsides of acting in things is mostly getting your hair done and having people give you clothes. So as long as you can have a little bit of that in your life, then it's just as delightful to be behind camera.

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#15. An acting teacher once told me, 'Greet everything with yes ... Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move forward.'

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#16. I don't want to be somebody else.

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#17. Steve Carell's Foxcatcher look took two hours to put on including his hairstyling and make-up. Just for comparison, it took me three hours today to prepare for my role as 'human woman'.

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#18. My problem with the traditional acting method was that I never understood what you were supposed to be thinking about when you're onstage.

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#19. Will Ferrell is a dangerous man. If he thinks you're in his way in show business, he will crack your head open. He's the Jeff Gillooly of comedy.

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#20. Tina Fey is the most caring woman I've worked with in this business.

Dean Winters

#21. I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

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#22. Only Colin Quinn was direct about it. "Your father doesn't fucking play games. You would never come home with a shamrock tattoo in that house." That's Don Fey.

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#23. Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film.

Janeane Garofalo

#24. I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age.

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#25. We all mentally prepare ourselves for wrinkles, but wrinkles are not the problem. It's the unexpected grosseries.

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#26. To this day the smell of fresh popcorn causes me to experience stress, hunger, and sketch ideas for John Goodman.

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#27. And, more important, for all those years that I was sure that boys could tell when I had a loaf-of-bread-size maxi pad going up the back of my pants, they actually had no idea.

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#28. (My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)

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#29. I had to face the fact that I had been using my gay friends as props. They were always supposed to be funny and entertain me and praise me and listen to my problems, and their life was supposed to be a secret that no one wanted to hear about. I wanted them to stay in the half closet.

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#30. I have a great gynecologist who is as gifted at listening as she is at rectal exams.

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#31. I think the philosophy will continue to be what it always was; which was, let's keep throwing a bunch of things at the wall, and see what sticks.

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#32. A new study suggests that middle-aged adults who go on periodic drinking binges may face a heightened risk of dementia later on in life. The study is entitled, 'National Strategy for Victory in Iraq.'

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#33. No, that part's not true! That's a joke-lie. I'm not going to lie to you in this story because I want you to know that the rest of it is true.

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#34. It's a burden, being able to control situations with my hyper-vigilance, but it's my lot in life. Some

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#35. We should leave people alone about their weight. Being skinny for a while (provided you actually eat food and don't take pills or smoke to get there) is a perfectly fine pastime. Everyone should try it once, like a super-short haircut or dating a white guy.

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#36. Again, don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions, go over, under, through.

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#37. An interesting thing about the beginning of our friendship and professional collaboration [with Tina Fey] was that the improve scenes we would do together were basically dramatic and not funny at all.

Amy Poehler

#38. Is this person in between me and what I want to do? If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way.

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#39. In real life these women experienced different sides of the same sexism coin. People who didn't like Hillary called her a ballbuster. People who didn't like Sarah called her Caribou Barbie. People attempted to marginalize these women based on their gender.

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#40. You mostly know that you want to be funny, know that you have the desire. It's not like people who grow up beautiful and can look in the mirror and be like, I'm beautiful! Funny is more of a journey. And a desperate attempt.

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#41. Anytime there's a bad female stand-up somewhere, some dickhead Interblogger will deduce that "women aren't funny." Using that same math, I can state: Male comedy writers piss in cups.

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#42. I felt like that character in Flowers for Algernon. Not Charlie, the lady teacher from the college who realizes, 'I've got to stop dry-humping this mentally challenged guy!

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#43. The Washington State Supreme Court on Thursday announced a two year suspension for a lawyer caught having jailhouse sex with a triple murder defendant she was representing. Haha! Jokes on you, dummies ... I'm not really a lawyer.

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#44. It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don't like something, it is empirically not good. I don't like Chinese food, but I don't write articles trying to prove it doesn't exist.

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#45. I went to the University of Virginia and I came from, I grew up in suburban Philadelphia.

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#46. I really wasn't heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.

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#47. So many people: Lucille Ball is the earliest incarnation of a woman I thought was funny, Joan Rivers, Roseanne, Carol Burnett, Gilda Radnor, down to current times, where you have Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, and Kristen Wiig.

Chelsea Peretti

#48. Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. For sketch writers, remember they're called sketches for a reason. They're not called oil paintings. Some of them are going to stink. You have to let them stink.

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#49. I like to delude myself that I'm in the old-Hollywood mode. I just tailor my clothes well and try to keep my skin clear. While it would be great to work out an hour a day, there is something inherently sort of selfish about it. I can't do it.

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#50. After a couple years of this nonsense my mom explained to me that the reason the "Greeky Greeks," as she called them, got the Italian rum cakes was because they were the most expensive item in the bakery. They wanted the adults at the party to know they could afford

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#51. If everyone had a dad like mine, no one would have sex tapes.

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#52. We can't expect our gay friends to always be single, celibate, and arriving early with the nacho fixin's. And we really need to let these people get married, already.

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#53. There should be a new, more honest euphemism. Like, I'm leaving office because I plan to solicit more anonymous sex in bathrooms.

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#54. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.

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#55. Last-ditch option for orphans and underweight babies, packaged infant formula has since been perfected to be a complete and reliable source of stress and shame for mothers. Anyone

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#56. Do I think Photoshop is being used excessively? Yes. I saw Madonna's Louis Vuitton ad and honestly, at first glance, I thought it was Gwen Stefani's baby.

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#57. It's such an honor to receive the Mark Twain Prize. To get the same award that has been given to people like Bill Cosby, Tina Fey and Will Ferrell, it really makes me wonder ... why didn't I get this sooner?

Ellen DeGeneres

#58. "30 Rock" is over, so I definitely aspire to write another movie again; eventually, will try to pitch something for television again.

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#59. You know who DOES have a funny bone in her body? Your Mom every night for a dollar!

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#60. A book hasn't caused me this much trouble since Where's Waldo went to that barber pole factory

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#61. Say yes and you'll figure it out afterwards.

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#62. The ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It's not forbidden anymore.

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#63. Tina Fey is a very old friend of mine, and I adore her.

Paula Pell

#64. I had read it, but nowhere in the pamphlet did

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#65. SLEEP (Sleep Like Everyone Else, Please). At

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#66. Lesson learned? When people say, "You really, really must" do something, it means you don't really have to. No one ever says, "You really, really must deliver the baby during labor." When it's true, it doesn't need to be said.

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#67. '30 Rock' is my favorite TV show and Tina Fey is one of my heroes. She was a dream to work with and the whole cast was just absolutely lovely.

Cristin Milioti

#68. At the upcoming Grammy Awards, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony will perform together as the first time, as man and wife. Hopefully music.

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#69. I'm a big fan of 'The Office', both the British and the American versions.

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#70. At the request of the Catholic Church, a three-day sex orgy to be held near Rio de Janeiro was cancelled last Friday. So instead I spent the weekend cleaning my apartment.

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#71. He alternated between ignoring me and shooting me disdainful looks that clearly said Who is this ugly off-brand non-sorority girl ruining our homo-erotic bro-times?

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#72. (Don Fey had a large rubber stamp that said "bullshit," which was and is awesome.)

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#73. called Jeff back in Chicago. "You grew up way out in the country with a bunch of brothers. Did you ever pee in cups and, like, leave them around?" Jeff was incredulous. "What? No! That's disgusting." One thousand points for Jeff.

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#74. There are never fewer than eight Tracey Ullman characters in any NYC nail salon at any given time.

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#75. Ask yourself the following question: "Is this person in between me and what I want to do?" If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing work and outpacing people that way.

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#76. If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.

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#77. Mother after the Greek kids' parties because they served Italian rum cake. Covered in slivered almonds and soaked in booze, Italian rum cake is everything kids hate about everything. No one even ate it.

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#78. Steve Carell and Tina Fey are a match made in comedy heaven. They're perfect.

Ben Lyons

#79. I'm a working parent and I understand that sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not. Children and Jimmy Carter ruin all your best-laid plans.

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#80. Many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident. I mean, look at the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, or Botox.

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#81. Life is improvisation. All of those [improv] classes were like church to me. The training had seeped into me and changed who I am.

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#82. At ten I asked my mother if I could start shaving my legs. My dark shin fur was hard to ignore in shorts weather,

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#83. There are different types of fancy photographers. Some are big, fun personalities like Mario Testino, who once told me, "Lift your chin, darling, you are not eighteen." I enjoyed his honesty. Also, I'm pretty sure he says that to models who are nineteen.

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#84. When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.

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#85. In an interview, Paris Hilton said that of her and her sister, "People love to hate us. But when you know us, you love us. And if you really get to know us, you get gonorrhea."

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#86. Sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not.

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#87. To this day, all I know is there are between two and four openings down there and that the set up inside looks vaguely like the Texas Longhorns logo.

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#88. I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.'

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#89. Ladies gotta say no to their husbands at the movies. They gotta say: "No, we are watching back-to-back cancer movies. And then this movie about a cat."

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#90. You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come to see you, and so they kind of know what they're in for. In television, you are sort of sneaking into people's homes. So, I think you can be a little bit darker on stage.

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#91. The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes. Everyone else is struggling. Even

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#92. The thing that always fascinated me about improv is that it's basically a happy accident that you think you're initiating.

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#93. I have one top-notch baby with whom I am in love. It's a head-over-heels "first love" kind of thing, because I pay for everything and all we do is hold hands.

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#94. You can fix it as soon as you get up - you brush and use mouthwash - but there's something about knowing you woke up with hot-mothball mouth that makes you feel old. I think God designed our mouths to die first to help us slowly transition to the grave.

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#95. I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.

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#96. So, to sum up my room-clearing generalizations, men are in comedy to break rules.

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#97. The same ten minutes that magazines urge me to use for sit-ups and triceps dips, I used for sobbing.

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#98. I don't have a driver's license. It's just one of the many ways in which I am developmentally stunted.

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#99. When I started on 'Saturday Night Live,' I had the choice of wearing contact lenses, which I had never worn before, or glasses, in order to be able to read the cue cards.

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#100. Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

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