When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
TINA FEYWhen humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
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.
TINA FEYMy standard answer is that I have the same struggle as any working parent but with the good fortune to be working at my dream job. Or sometimes I just hand them a juicy red apple I’ve poisoned in my working-mother witch cauldron and fly away.
TINA FEYWhat 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.
TINA FEYConfidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion, just thinking foolishly that you will be able to do what you want to do
TINA FEYI 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.
TINA FEYThe arms of Michelle Obama, and doll tits. The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes.
TINA FEYIn real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.
TINA FEYI have no affinity for animals. I don’t hate animals and I would never hurt an animal; I just don’t actively care about them.
TINA FEYIf you retain nothing else, always remember the most important Rule of Beauty. “Who cares?”
TINA FEYWhen 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.
TINA FEY‘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.
TINA FEYStart with a ‘Yes’, and see where that takes you.
TINA FEYTo say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.
TINA FEYPeople 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.
TINA FEYI don’t like a tremendous amount of conflict. I don’t think that fighting and passion are the same thing.
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