Top 40 Tina Fey Quotes

I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other.

Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying.

I 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.

The idea of being in control for the sake of control is not really important to me. If everyone is sharp and doing what they’re doing well, you don’t really need to be in control all the time.

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 webcam. I’m old-fashioned that way.

I’m a big fan of ‘The Office‘, both the British and the American versions.

I like to delude myself that I’m in the old-Hollywood mode. I just tailor my clothes well and try to keep my skin clear. While it would be great to work out an hour a day, there is something inherently sort of selfish about it. I can’t do it.

After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy was. I moved from Charlottesville to Chicago, because that’s where The Second City and Improv Olympics are. You have to go wherever you need to go to study what interests you.

If you’re an actor and you don’t get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.

I remember failing my Princeton interview. My mom wanted me to apply because ever since I was a kid she had this dream that I would apply to Princeton, but it was just not happening.

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.

I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.

Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They were about work friendships and relationships, which is what I feel my adult life has mostly been about.

I think people fetishize glasses in general. You could put glasses on a rotting pumpkin and people would think it was sexy.

I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I’m with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep. That’s basically how we’re doing it.

When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

I didn’t get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

I am extremely square and obedient in nature!

I really wasn’t heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.

I’m not a mean person, but I have a capacity for it.

I want to spend time with Oprah, and I don’t know what I need to do to make that happen.

Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.

I feel like I represent normalcy in some way.

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it’s terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It’s a dying art, in a way.

I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it’s a little unseemly for women of a certain age.

I don’t like my feet. I’m not crazy about anybody‘s feet. But I have flat feet.

I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep.

I think everyone’s intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college, I discovered that I liked writing and that I was probably a little better at it.

I never get to go to movies, because I’m a mom.

I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other. And I don’t think anyone‘s really doing it.

You don’t just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at ‘SNL‘ is writing to go after someone.

The ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It’s not forbidden anymore.

When I was going to school in, like, ’84 to ’88, you didn’t have cell phones. There was no e-mail, if you can wrap your brain around that.

I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, ‘Well, they get pie. It’s not so bad. They get pie on the weekends.’ I want to say blueberry and also a Boston cream pie. Not so bad.

I don’t like a tremendous amount of conflict. I don’t think that fighting and passion are the same thing.

Yeah, it’s tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I’m really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it’s true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in.

I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, ‘I’ll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.’

Even when I was at ‘SNL,’ I didn’t do impersonations. I always wanted to be the kind of person who could do them – I always thought they were the coolest thing on the show – but I didn’t have any experience.

An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women’s Affairs. Man, who’d she have to show her ankles to to get that job?

I feel like it’s harder to get women to show up for movies.