If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you’re in charge, don’t hire the people who were jerky to you.
TINA FEYIf 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.
More Tina Fey Quotes
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In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.
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Even more amazing: not the worst review the movie got.
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MAKE STATEMENTS also applies to us women: Speak in statements instead of apologetic questions. No one wants to go to a doctor who says, “I’m going to be your surgeon? I’m here to talk to you about your procedure?
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You do not have to sleep with a comedian to learn what you’re doing. Male comedians will not like that advice, but it is the truth.
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In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for the liver. I’m sorry, did I say ‘scientists’? I meant Irish people.
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Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn’t get to be.
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People lose their minds, trying to prove their parental worth by getting their children into one of five colleges; when there are thousands of good colleges across the United States – and elsewhere.
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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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When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
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It was reported that Guy Ritchie has cast his wife Madonna in a small walk-on role in his new movie, Revolver. Madonna will play the part of the woman who ruins the film.
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Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.
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Why are my arms so weak? It’s like I did that push-up last year for nothing!
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Don’t be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.
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I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?” Make statements, with your actions and your voice.
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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.
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