"If you want to make an audience laugh,……" — Tina Fey
"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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235 Quotes by Tina Fey
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I had to get back to work. NBC has me under contract. The baby and I only have a verbal…
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Sometimes I'll be telling my husband, 'I think I'm cracking up'. Sometimes you just need a minute to say, 'I…
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This is what I tell young women who ask me for career advice. People are going to try to trick…
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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…
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I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I'm with my daughter, and then I go to sleep.…
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It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.
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Just say yes and you'll figure it out afterwards.
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An acting teacher once told me, 'Greet everything with yes... Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying…
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We writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us,…
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Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.
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I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and…
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According to a new study, women in satisfying marriages are less likely to develop cardiovascular diseases than unmarried women. So…
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
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I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
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Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am.…
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The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what…
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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations…
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