I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?” Make statements, with your actions and your voice.
TINA FEYIt will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.
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Not only is my wardrobe totally average, my body’s totally average. I love all the candy-fantasy fulfillment of Sex and the City.
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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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I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it’s only because I struggle with math.
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Just say yes and you’ll figure it out afterwards.
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Don’t be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.
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If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important Rule of Beauty. “Who cares?”
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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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Lesson learned? When people say, “You really, really must” do something, it means you don’t really have to. No one ever says, “You really, really must deliver the baby during labor.” When it’s true, it doesn’t need to be said.
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You transition as a mother from literally just pulling a booger out of that person’s nose whenever you see one until at some point they assert: “No, I’m a person. You can’t fix my underpants on the subway.”
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North Korea referred to The Interview as absolutely intolerable and a wanton act of terror.
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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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A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby’s temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who’s boss.
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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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You’re not in competition with other women. You’re in competition with everyone.
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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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It was reported that the New York Knicks have won all 12 of the home games attended by magician David Blaine. A spokesman for the Knicks said, ‘if this is what it takes to win, it’s not worth it.’
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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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There are no mistakes only opportunities.
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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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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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In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.
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You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
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Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.
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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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I had to get back to work, .. NBC has me under contract; the baby and I have only a verbal agreement.
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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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