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 w… ▶371HumanityHumor
Tina FeyAh, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts. ✨ Tina Fey (2011). Bossypants, p.130, Hachette UK351Time
Tina FeyI have two daughters, and we live here in Manhattan, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever rival the stress of that. ✨ Ti… ▶341Truth
Tina FeyWhen humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real. ✨ Oprah Talks to Tina Fey. Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www… ▶374HumanityHumorReading
Tina FeyIt doesn't matter if it's a school play or a dumb TV show. It's your work. You should care about it so much that people get annoyed with you.363Humanity
Tina FeyWhen hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir. ✨ Lessons from Late Night by Tina Fey, www.newyorker.com. March 14, 2011.363Politics
Tina FeyIf 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. (Some peop… ▶331HumanityReadingSadness
Tina FeyFor my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I … ▶375DeathHumorLife
Tina Fey(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.) ✨ Bossypants. Book by Tina Fey, October 13, 2011.353ReadingTime
Tina FeyWhen I started on 'Saturday Night Live,' I had the choice of wearing contact lenses, which I had never worn before, or glasses, in order to be able to read the cue cards.376Reading
Tina FeyI was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing.376Thought
Tina FeyOnly in comedy, by the way, does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity. ✨ Tina Fey (2011). Bossypants, p.65, Hachette UK343DeathHumor
Tina FeyI had my hair in a ponytail and looked my trademark exhausted.365Sadness
Tina FeySome people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone. ✨ Bossypants. Book by Tina Fey, April 05, 2011.354HumanityReadingSadness
Tina FeyIn an attempt to make things easier for myself, which is the basis for all of history's worst decisions [...]. ✨ Tina Fey (2011). Bossypants, p.154, Hachette UK376Life
Tina FeyI keep my eyes on the sea, waiting to be rocketed into it on a wave of fire. I'll be ready for it to happen and that way it won't happen. It's a burden, being able to control situ… ▶376LifeReading
Tina FeyThe ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It's not forbidden anymore. ✨ Tina Fey Says a '30 Rock' Reunion Would Only Happen in Imax by Emily Zelmer, ww… ▶344DeathHumor
Tina FeyYour characters should be as smart as you are, if not smarter.366Reading
Tina FeyThere are no mistakes only opportunities. ✨ Bossypants by Tina Fey - review by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2011.322Thought
Tina FeyIt's like being a little kid again, parading around in a nightgown tucked into your underpants, believing it looks terrific.311Hope
Tina FeyLife is improvisation. All of those [improv] classes were like church to me. The training had seeped into me and changed who I am.345Life
Tina FeyI think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it’ll recede. In fact, I know it will. That’s life on planet earth. And I’m okay with that. Besides getting tables at restaur… ▶323LifeThoughtTruth
Tina FeyTwitter seems like a busman's holiday: just more writing. I have no plans to do it. I'll just stick with my 24/7 webcam. I'm old-fashioned that way. ✨ The Real Tina Fey by A… ▶356Humor
Tina FeyI don't like a tremendous amount of conflict. I don't think that fighting and passion are the same thing.334LoveThought
Tina FeyI don't enjoy any kind of danger or volatility. I don't have that kind of 'I love the bad guys' thing. No, no thank you. I like nice people.323HumanityLove
Tina FeyThere 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 s… ▶334DeathHumorTruth
Tina FeySteve Carell's Foxcatcher look took two hours to put on, including his hairstyling and make up. Just for comparison, it took me three hours today to prepare for my role as human w… ▶323HumanityHumor
Tina FeyI think women dress for other women to let them know what their deal is. Because if women were only dressing for men, there would be nothing but Victoria's Secret. There would be … ▶301Thought
Tina FeyPolitics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.334LifePoliticsReflection
Tina FeyDon't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. ✨ The Real Tina Fey. Interview with A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. April 13, 2010.346Thought
