I had to get back to work, .. NBC has me under contract; the baby and I have only a verbal agreement.
TINA FEYMy standard answer is that I have the same struggle as any working parent but with the good fortune to be working at my dream job. Or sometimes I just hand them a juicy red apple I’ve poisoned in my working-mother witch cauldron and fly away.
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This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, ‘Okay, that happened, and I did not die.’ You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
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Nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.
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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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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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Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.
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Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.
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Every kid has something they’re good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward.
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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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Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.
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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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Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn’t get to be.
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Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.
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And I can see Russia from my house.
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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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Ah, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.
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