I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?” Make statements, with your actions and your voice.
TINA FEYPolitics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.
More Tina Fey Quotes
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It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.
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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 tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.
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Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.
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Start with a ‘Yes’, and see where that takes you.
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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 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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In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone “come out” to you is the “pretending to be surprised” part.
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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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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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I think part of picking where you live in New York is accepting who you are. Really looking at yourself and going, ‘Yeah, I’m not cool enough for the West Village.’
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My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.
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(Some people say “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.)
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You can’t control things by being nervous.
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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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