You’re not in competition with other women. You’re in competition with everyone.
TINA FEYJust say yes and you’ll figure it out afterwards.
More Tina Fey Quotes
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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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Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions… Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.
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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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You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.
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I was a little excited but mostly blorft. “Blorft” is an adjective I just made up that means ‘Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.’ I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.
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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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Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.
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So, my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism, or ageism, or lookism, or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: “Is this person in between me and what I want to do?”
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I’m not that good looking… nobody is that good looking. I have seen a lot of movie stars, and maybe four are amazing looking. The rest have a team of gay guys who make it happen.
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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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When a coworker shows me cute pictures of her dog, I struggle to respond correctly, like an autistic person who has been taught to recognize human emotions from flash cards. In short, I am the worst.
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Don’t be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.
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Nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.
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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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To me YES, AND means don’t be afraid to contribute. Always make sure you’re adding something to the discussion. Your initiations are worthwhile.
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Maternity leave is over for Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live. She’ll be back behind the Weekend Update anchor desk for this week’s episode, her first show since giving birth to daughter Alice on Sept. 10.
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Life is improvisation.
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I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.
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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 I turned 50, I looked in the mirror and I thought: “Hey, this isn’t the dress rehearsal, this is life and I don’t know how much longer I’m going to have!”
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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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In order to feel safer on his private jet, actor John Travolta has purchased a bomb-sniffing dog. Unfortunately for the actor, the dog came six movies too late.
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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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Just say yes and you’ll figure it out afterwards.
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To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.
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For my first show at ‘SNL’, I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn’t getting any laughs.
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