Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.
TINA FEYFor 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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Seriously, I’ve just realized that almost everyone is a fraud, so I try not to feel too bad about it.
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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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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 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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You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.
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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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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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(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)
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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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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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In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.
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Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion, just thinking foolishly that you will be able to do what you want to do
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There are no mistakes only opportunities.
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You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
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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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