Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.
TINA FEYPolitics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.
More Tina Fey Quotes
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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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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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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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You’re not in competition with other women. You’re in competition with everyone.
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There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.
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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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Thomas Jefferson-another gorgeous white boy who would not have been interested in me. This was my problem in a nutshell. To get some play in Charlottesville, you had to be either a Martha Jefferson or a Sally Hemings.
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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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Just say yes and you’ll figure it out afterwards.
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If you are a woman and you bought this book for practical tips on how to make it in a male-dominated workplace, here they are. No pigtails, no tube tops. Cry sparingly.
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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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Why are my arms so weak? It’s like I did that push-up last year for nothing!
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You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive 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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To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.
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I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it’s only because I struggle with math.
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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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I feel like there is a lot of inherent humor in the stress and insanity surrounding that process.
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Every kid has something they’re good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward.
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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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In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone “come out” to you is the “pretending to be surprised” part.
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My 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.
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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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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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Even more amazing: not the worst review the movie got.
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