“Amy Poehler was new to SNL and we were all crowded into the seventeenth-floor writers' room, waiting for the Wednesday night read-through… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I dreamed of being an actress when I was a little kid because you don't know then that the writer writes everything… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“The show doesn’t go on because it’s ready; it goes on because it’s 11:30. This is something Lorne [Michaels] has said often… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
[Television] is a great medium for writers, because there's just no time for a studio to interfere very long. You write it,… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
"30 Rock" is over, so I definitely aspire to write another movie again; eventually, will try to pitch something for television again. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“Kay Cannon was a woman I’d known from the Chicago improv world. A beautiful, strong midwestern gal who had played lots of… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
It's a great lesson about not being too precious about your writing. You have to try your hardest to be at the… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
We writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“The sketch should lead the cutting pattern, which is to say content should dictate style, which is to say that in TV… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Twitter seems like a busman's holiday: just more writing. I have no plans to do it. I'll just stick with my 24/7… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. For sketch writers, remember they're called sketches for… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“Pilot scripts are particularly difficult to write because you have to introduce all the characters without it feeling like a series of… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I think everyone's intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college,… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I definitely think of myself still as a writer first, and feel like - with the lucky exception of this - any… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I really like John McCain. He's an awesome dude and was a lot of fun when he hosted "SNL." I'd love to see a… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
You mostly know that you want to be funny, know that you have the desire. It's not like people who grow up beautiful and… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Pentagon records show that at least 8,000 members of the all-volunteer U.S. Army have deserted since the Iraq war began. Hey, at least somebody… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“That summer I got to know four families in which half the children were gay. In case you’re interested from a sociological point of… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come to see… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
[...] things most people do naturally are often inexplicably difficult for me. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“To this day, all I know is there are between two and four openings down there and that the set up inside looks vaguely… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Wafah Dufour bin Laden, niece of Osama bin Laden has signed a contract to star in a reality show... called Skating with the Nieces… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image