Tina Fey Quotes - Page 7

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• Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.

  Tina Fey

  Years, Television, Nine

  "Tina Fey, Movie Star? Not Quite Yet, She Says". "Morning Edition" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. March 22, 2013.

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• I had a gentleman in college tell me, during a date, that I could be really pretty if I lost some weight. On a date!

  Tina Fey

  College, Gentleman, Weight

  "Date Night - Tina Fey interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I believe in process. I believe that having a really difficult process is more valuable than a good outcome.

  Tina Fey

  Believe, Outcomes, Process

  "Tina Fey on Top". Interview with Amy Poehler, www.marieclaire.com. April 10, 2008.

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• I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I've gotta make sense of them.
  I enjoy helping to develop material for movies, it's a way for me to get into the part.

  Tina Fey

  Monsters, Way, Helping

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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

  Tina Fey

  Dressing Up, Comedy, Forbidden

  "Tina Fey Says a '30 Rock' Reunion Would Only Happen in Imax" by Emily Zelmer, www.elle.com. September 23, 2013.

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• 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.

  Tina Fey

  College, Cities, Firsts

  "Funny girl". www.seventeen.com. January 24, 2008.

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• I had my hair in a ponytail and looked my trademark exhausted.

  Tina Fey

  Hair, Ponytails, Exhausted

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• 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.

  Tina Fey

  Reading, Opportunity, Night

  "Funny girl". www.seventeen.com. January 24, 2008.

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• I think for women especially, you need to have a plan. I need to have some other ways to generate income, so I don't have to stretch my face or lift the top of my head with surgery or something.

  Tina Fey

  Thinking, Income, Needs

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• I don't want to be somebody else.

  Tina Fey

  Want

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• Pissing in jars, they had never been handed a fifteen-year-old Kotex product by the school nurse. But they trusted me and Paula, so I'm proud to say we made

  Tina Fey

  School, Years, Nurse

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.84, Hachette UK

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• In real life these women experienced different sides of the same sexism coin. People who didn't like Hillary called her a ballbuster. People who didn't like Sarah called her Caribou Barbie. People attempted to marginalize these women based on their gender.

  Tina Fey

  Real, People, Barbie

  "Tina Fey and Amy Poehler: sisters in comedy rip into the boys' club" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2015.

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• I think the philosophy will continue to be what it always was; which was, let's keep throwing a bunch of things at the wall, and see what sticks.

  Tina Fey

  Wall, Philosophy, Thinking

  "Tina Fey, Movie Star? Not Quite Yet, She Says". "Morning Edition" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. March 22, 2013.

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• ...the Rule of Agreement reminds you to “respect what your partner has created” and to at least start from an open-minded place. Start with a YES and see where that takes you.

  Tina Fey

  Agreement, Open Minded, Partners

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• Will Ferrell is a dangerous man. If he thinks you're in his way in show business, he will crack your head open. He's the Jeff Gillooly of comedy.

  Tina Fey

  Men, Thinking, Dangerous Man

  "Live From Studio 1A: Tina Fey Q & A". allDAY Interview, www.today.com. April 5, 2007.

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• This worked out perfectly for me in college, because what nineteen-year-old Virginia boy doesn't want a wide-hipped, sarcastic Greek girl with short hair that's permed on top? What's that you say? None of them want that? You are correct.

  Tina Fey

  Girl, Sarcastic, Boys

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• I felt like that character in Flowers for Algernon. Not Charlie, the lady teacher from the college who realizes, 'I've got to stop dry-humping this mentally challenged guy!

  Tina Fey

  Teacher, Flower, Character

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• The more New Yorkers like something, the more disgusted they are. "The kitchen was all Sub-Zero: I want to kill myself. The building has a playroom that makes you want to break your own jaw with a golf club. I can't take it.

  Tina Fey

  Zero, Golf, Kitchen

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.69, Hachette UK

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• Then she took out a speculum the size of a milk shake machine. Even Michelle Duggar would have flinched at this thing, but I had never seen one before.

  Tina Fey

  Machines, Milk, Size

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• I was ten. I had noticed something was weird earlier in the day, but I knew from commercials that one's menstrual period was a blue liquid that you poured like laundry detergent onto maxi pads to test their absorbency. This wasn't blue, so... I ignored it for a few hours.

  Tina Fey

  Blue, Tests, Pads

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2011.

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• We writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a laptop, alone.

  Tina Fey

  Dream, Writing, Laptops

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• I was wearing my best Gap turtleneck and my dates were two adult lesbians, so yea, I was pretty cool.

  Tina Fey

  Two, Adults, Gaps

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• When 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.

  Tina Fey

  Night, Glasses, Order

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• I was taken to an examining room where a big butch nurse practitioner came in and asked me if I was pregnant. “No way!” Was I sexually active? “Nope!” Had I ever been molested? “Well,” I said, trying to make a joke, “Oprah says the only answers to that question are ‘Yes’ and ‘I don’t remember.’ ” I laughed. We were having fun. The nurse looked at me, concerned/annoyed.

  Tina Fey

  Fun, Taken, Nurse

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• ...the music seems creepy, like when children sing in a horror movie

  Tina Fey

  Children, Creepy, Horror

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