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.
TINA FEYEverybody kind of gets to be the person they didn’t get to be.
More Tina Fey Quotes
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I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, ‘Well, they get pie. It’s not so bad. They get pie on the weekends.’ I want to say blueberry and also a Boston cream pie. Not so bad.
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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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It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.
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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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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 be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.
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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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I hire people that are good, and aren’t crazy. Or assholes. Because that takes up too much time. There are just as many good people who are not crazy.
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Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn’t get to be.
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An acting teacher once told me, ‘Greet everything with yes… Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move forward.’
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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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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 going to dedicate myself, full time, to my day-drinking.
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I do like to start on time; I like to set the bar high for people.
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I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.
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You’re not in competition with other women. You’re in competition with everyone.
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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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An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women’s Affairs. Man, who’d she have to show here ankles to to get that job?
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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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Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.
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I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?” Make statements, with your actions and your voice.
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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 was a little excited but mostly blorft. “Blorft” is an adjective I just made up that means ‘Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.’ I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.
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In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.
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And I can see Russia from my house.
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It was reported that Guy Ritchie has cast his wife Madonna in a small walk-on role in his new movie, Revolver. Madonna will play the part of the woman who ruins the film.
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