I had to get back to work, .. NBC has me under contract; the baby and I have only a verbal agreement.
TINA FEYYou’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
More Tina Fey Quotes
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I am going to dedicate myself, full time, to my day-drinking.
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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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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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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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I prefer the retro chic of spending Christmas just like Joseph and Mary did – Traveling arduously back to the place of your birth to be counted, with no guarantee of a bed when you get there.
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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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Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.
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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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In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone “come out” to you is the “pretending to be surprised” part.
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You’re not in competition with other women. You’re in competition with everyone.
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If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
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Read! When your baby is finally down for the night, pick up a juicy book like Eat, Pray, Love or Pride and Prejudice or my personal favorite,Understanding Sleep Disorders: Narcolepsy and Apnea.
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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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And I can see Russia from my house.
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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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