Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn’t get to be.
TINA FEYIf you retain nothing else, always remember the most important Rule of Beauty. “Who cares?”
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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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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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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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‘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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It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.
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To me YES, AND means don’t be afraid to contribute. Always make sure you’re adding something to the discussion. Your initiations are worthwhile.
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Start with a ‘Yes’, and see where that takes you.
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Life is improvisation.
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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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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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Nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.
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You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
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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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My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.
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This week, penny collector Gene Sukie went to the bank and cashed in ten thousand pounds of pennies he had collected over 34 years, which were worth over fourteen thousand dollars. And, of course, I was in line behind him.
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Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.
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Sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not.
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If you ever start to feel good about yourself… …. they have this thing called the internet.
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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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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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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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Now every girl is expected to have: Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy.
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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 think someone should design exercise machines that reward people with sex at the end of their workouts, because people will perform superhuman feats for even the faint hope of that.
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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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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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