When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
TINA FEYPolitics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.
More Tina Fey Quotes
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There are a couple of things I want to impart to ladies who want to be in comedy: One, you don’t have to be weird or be quirky to get your job done. And two, comedy skill is not sexually transmittable.
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In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.
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When actors are too good-looking, I can’t memorize them. For example, I have never seen a picture of Sienna Miller where I didn’t say, “That girl’s pretty. Who is that?
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It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.
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In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.
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In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone “come out” to you is the “pretending to be surprised” part.
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Every kid has something they’re good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward.
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If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you’re asking actors to do. Learning other skills will help you communicate with people and respect what they do.
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‘How do you juggle it all?’ people constantly ask me, with an accusatory look in their eyes. ‘You’re screwing it all up, aren’t you?’ their eyes say.
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I hire people that are good, and aren’t crazy. Or assholes. Because that takes up too much time. There are just as many good people who are not crazy.
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I want every day to be the most boring news day ever. I want every day to be about spelling bee champions and baby basketball. It’s better to have no comedy material than a horrific news day.
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I think someone should design exercise machines that reward people with sex at the end of their workouts, because people will perform superhuman feats for even the faint hope of that.
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A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby’s temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who’s boss.
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What Turning Forty Means to Me I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn’t used to have to do that. But now I do.
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Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn’t get to be.
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