When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.
TINA FEYIf 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.
More Tina Fey Quotes
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‘How do you juggle it all?’ people constantly ask me, with an accusatory look in their eyes. ‘You’re screwing it all up, aren’t you?’ their eyes say.
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Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.
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I want every day to be the most boring news day ever. I want every day to be about spelling bee champions and baby basketball. It’s better to have no comedy material than a horrific news day.
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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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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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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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Obviously, as an adult I realize this girl-on-girl sabotage is the third worst kind of female behavior, right behind saying “like” all the time and leaving your baby in a dumpster.
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Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.
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You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.
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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 do like to start on time; I like to set the bar high for people.
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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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Gay people don’t actually try to convert people. That’s Jehovah’s Witnesses you’re thinking of.
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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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Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions… Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.
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