Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.
TINA FEYYou’re not in competition with other women. You’re in competition with everyone.
More Tina Fey Quotes
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Ah, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.
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North Korea referred to The Interview as absolutely intolerable and a wanton act of terror.
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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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Read! When your baby is finally down for the night, pick up a juicy book like Eat, Pray, Love or Pride and Prejudice or my personal favorite,Understanding Sleep Disorders: Narcolepsy and Apnea.
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The 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.
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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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Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn’t get to be.
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My work is my work. I take my work seriously but I don’t take myself too seriously.
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Just say yes and you’ll figure it out afterwards.
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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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Even more amazing: not the worst review the movie got.
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You go through big chunks of time where you’re just thinking, ‘this is impossible – oh,this is impossible’. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.
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Sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not.
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Start with a ‘Yes’, and see where that takes you.
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Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.
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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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Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.
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In an attempt to make things easier for myself, which is the basis for all of history’s worst decisions […].
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When 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.
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I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.
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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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Photoshop is just like makeup. When it’s done well it looks great, and when it’s overdone you look like a crazy asshole.
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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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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.
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A Clinical Study. Taking some time to read each night really taught me how to feign narcolepsy when my husband asked me what my “plan” was for taking down the Christmas tree.
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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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