Top 100 Quotes About Tina Fey
#1. 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
#2. Tina Fey is the most caring woman I've worked with in this business.
Dean Winters
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Tina Fey is a very old friend of mine, and I adore her.
Paula Pell
#8. '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
#9. Steve Carell and Tina Fey are a match made in comedy heaven. They're perfect.
Ben Lyons
#10. I love people like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, people who create and write their own stuff - especially when there's just not enough cool, interesting characters out there.
Debby Ryan
#11. I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.
Tina Fey
#12. I have a female colleague who gets annoyed that Tina Fey seems to go out of her way in her movies to deride her looks, as if she weren't such an attractive woman.
David Edelstein
#14. I'm a huge, huge, huge fan of Steve Carrell and Tina Fey for years.
Mila Kunis
#15. I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.
Adam McKay
#16. On a trip to Israel, Sarah Palin asked the Israelis why they're apologizing all the time. They responded saying, 'Because we told everyone Tina Fey was coming.'
Conan O'Brien
#17. I love 'Mean Girls.' I held out on watching it for a long time, but I'm so glad I finally did. Tina Fey is brilliant.
Brant Daugherty
#18. I love '30 Rock' because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.
Tracy Morgan
#19. Anyone watching '30 Rock' always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of herself, a workaholic comedy writer who also plays one on TV. She's the boss; Liz Lemon just works here.
Rob Sheffield
#20. I would do almost anything Tina Fey asks me to do.
Nancy Pelosi
#21. Tina Fey could run this country before Sarah Palin could!
Nikki Reed
#22. I absolutely loved Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and didn't want it to end. It's hilarious as well as important. Not only did I laugh on every page, but I was nodding along, highlighting and dog-earing like crazy.
Sheryl Sandberg
#23. I really looked up to Tina Fey as a writer, and because I did have a background in writing, she is someone whose career I really did admire.
Nasim Pedrad
#24. Why can't I be admitted to the ... bosom of the operation?" I leaned toward him but almost started to laugh because "bosom" was such a funny word and my innuendo was more Tina Fey than Angelina Jolie.
Claire Gillian
#25. If you want a great replacement, like, who can follow Barack and still have that swag, that charisma, that charm and be historic - I think it would be Tina Fey for president.
Hasan Minhaj
#26. You folks like TV, you watch a lot of TV? There's a show right here on CBS, it's a huge hit. It's called the "Mentalist." And it's about this guy who has a heightened sense of observation. It's miraculous; he's the only guy in the world who can tell the difference between Sarah Palin and Tina Fey.
David Letterman
#27. I had not met Tina Fey before I auditioned for '30 Rock'. Some people think we're old friends from 'Second City' days. I had always been a fan of Tina's. But I actually never planned on being in a sitcom.
Judah Friedlander
#28. I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
Caitlin Moran
#29. I want to be host of 'SNL.' I want to work with Steven Spielberg, Leonardo DiCaprio, J.J. Abrams, Emma Stone and Tim Burton, Sean Penn, Cameron Crowe. I want to work with Adam Sandler - he is so funny - and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
David Mazouz
#30. Normally, it's one or the other - a pretty, straight woman or a more charactery woman who isn't supposed to be attractive. But women like Tina Fey are leading the charge on being both. You can be funny and attractive.
Becki Newton
#31. I'm more influenced by characters than standups. I love strong, comic women because it's so hard, and I have so much respect for anyone who can do it. I'm a big fan of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and people like that.
Amy Hoggart
#32. We have to agree beforehand to divide the funniest lines between us. But Tina [Fey] is so brilliant that I just love every moment working with her and also just hanging out together as friends.
Amy Poehler
#34. Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch 3', 'Cagney and Lacey', 'Wonder Twins Activate From Two Hot Broads', 'Little House on the Prairie: The Musical: The Movie'.
Amy Poehler
#35. My biggest influence is someone I really don't know at all: Tina Fey. Smart, funny, beautiful, self-deprecating, also a mom and a wife.
Laura Benanti
#36. I don't think there'd be a Tina Fey now if I hadn't tried to look good in the beginning.
Joan Rivers
#37. I love a lot of comedy actors and actresses like Kristen Wiig and Tina Fey and all those women who are really brilliant and funny.
Saoirse Ronan
#38. I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.
Emma Stone
#39. I'd love to hear what confident, intelligent women in the industry have to say: Rachel McAdams, Carey Mulligan, Angelina Jolie, Kristen Wiig and Tina Fey. I would stand in line all day for that panel.
Nina Dobrev
#40. 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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#41. 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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#42. 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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#43. 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.
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#44. 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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#45. Children are the soul sucking worst.
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#46. 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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#47. I believe in process. I believe that having a really difficult process is more valuable than a good outcome.
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#48. 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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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: who cares?
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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. I don't want to be somebody else.
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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. 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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#58. 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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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. We all mentally prepare ourselves for wrinkles, but wrinkles are not the problem. It's the unexpected grosseries.
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#62. To this day the smell of fresh popcorn causes me to experience stress, hunger, and sketch ideas for John Goodman.
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#63. 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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#64. (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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#65. 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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#66. I have a great gynecologist who is as gifted at listening as she is at rectal exams.
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#67. 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.
Tina Fey
#68. 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.'
Tina Fey
#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. 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.
Tina Fey
#72. Again, don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions, go over, under, through.
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#73. 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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#74. 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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#75. 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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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. 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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#79. 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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#80. I went to the University of Virginia and I came from, I grew up in suburban Philadelphia.
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#81. 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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#82. 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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#83. 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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#84. 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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#85. If everyone had a dad like mine, no one would have sex tapes.
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#86. 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.
Tina Fey
#87. 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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#88. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.
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#89. 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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#90. 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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#91. "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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#92. You know who DOES have a funny bone in her body? Your Mom every night for a dollar!
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#93. A book hasn't caused me this much trouble since Where's Waldo went to that barber pole factory
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#94. Say yes and you'll figure it out afterwards.
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#95. The ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It's not forbidden anymore.
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#96. I had read it, but nowhere in the pamphlet did
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#97. SLEEP (Sleep Like Everyone Else, Please). At
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#98. 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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#99. 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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#100. I'm a big fan of 'The Office', both the British and the American versions.
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