Latest Tina Fey Quotes from Interviews

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• At some point, you realize that people might be laughing at your jokes because they're afraid not to laugh.

  Tina Fey

  People, Laughing, Realizing

  Source: www.oprah.com

• It's easy to fall into the trap of just cranking out things that are good enough to sell.

  Tina Fey

  Fall, Easy, Good Enough

  Source: www.oprah.com

• It's hard to get laughs when you're new.

  Tina Fey

  Laughing

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprahmag.co.za. August 2010.

• A willingness to drop your ego and let yourself look foolish. You almost have to enjoy looking vulnerable. You'd be surprised how many people don't want to do that.

  Tina Fey

  People, Ego, Vulnerable

  "Oprah Talks to Tina Fey". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. February 2009.

• The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh.

  Tina Fey

  People, Laughing

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprahmag.co.za. August 2010.

• 30 Rock is a little different from other current sitcoms, in that it's fast-paced, but the pace comes from the actors, not the editing.

  Tina Fey

  Different, Sitcom

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I am going to dedicate myself, full time, to my day-drinking.

  Tina Fey

  Drinking, Day Drinking

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

• There should be a new, more honest euphemism. Like, I'm leaving office because I plan to solicit more anonymous sex in bathrooms.

  Tina Fey

  Sex, Office, Leaving

  "Tina Fey, Movie Star? Not Quite Yet, She Says". www.wbur.org. March 22, 2013.

• I'm still technically employed by the National Broadcasting Company.

  Tina Fey

  Broadcasting, Company, Employed

  "Tina Fey, Movie Star? Not Quite Yet, She Says". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 22, 2013.

• [Television] is a great medium for writers, because there's just no time for a studio to interfere very long. You write it, you shoot it; it's on TV.

  Tina Fey

  Writing, Long, Television

  "Tina Fey, Movie Star? Not Quite Yet, She Says". www.wbur.org. March 22, 2013.

• "30 Rock" is over, so I definitely aspire to write another movie again; eventually, will try to pitch something for television again.

  Tina Fey

  Writing, Rocks, Trying

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

  Tina Fey

  Ideas, Important, Doing You

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

• "Admission" is Paul Weitz's movie. This is Karen Croner - the screenwriter's - movie. To have such a lovely role in such a beautifully written script offered to me, it's like elves made the shoes.

  Tina Fey

  Shoes, Lovely, Roles

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

• I was like, oh, I want to sign up for "Catwoman," and then Anne Hathaway had already signed up for it.

  Tina Fey

  Want, Catwoman

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

• Anne Hathaway you gave a stunning performance in "Les Miserables." I have not seen someone so totally alone and abandoned like that since you were onstage with James Franco at the Oscars.

  Tina Fey

  Oscars, Abandoned, Stunning

  "Golden Globes 2013 are totally T & A". Opening of the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, www.chicagotribune.com. January 13, 2013.

• I feel like there is a lot of inherent humor in the stress and insanity surrounding that process. People lose their minds, trying to prove their parental worth by getting their children into one of five colleges; when there are thousands of good colleges across the United States - and elsewhere.

  Tina Fey

  Children, Stress, College

  "Tina Fey, Movie Star? Not Quite Yet, She Says". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www-s1.npr.org. March 22, 2013.

• If you watch [The] Search for Signs of Intelligent Life [in the Universe], or The Incredible Shrinking Woman, or 9 to 5, there is a lot of gender politics at the forefront of Lily Tomlin work, which was kind of thrilling for me to be watching as a 10-, 11-, 12-year-old kid.

  Tina Fey

  Kids, Intelligent, Years

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

• I'm such a fan of Lily's [Tomlin], for so many years. I feel like Lily was the first popular mainstream crossover comedian who also was kind of an overtly feminist comedian.

  Tina Fey

  Years, Feminist, Comedian

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

• In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.

  Tina Fey

  Real, Real Life, People

  "Movies: Tina Fey goes to war in 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot'". Press conference, www.usatoday.com. March 3, 2016.

• I don't live the single life and never really did.

  Tina Fey

  Single Life

  "Keeping It Real with Tina Fey". Interview with Lauren Iannotti, www.marieclaire.com. September 26, 2007.

• Not only is my wardrobe totally average, my body's totally average. I love all the candy-fantasy fulfillment of Sex and the City.

  Tina Fey

  Sex, Average, Cities

  "Keeping It Real with Tina Fey". Interview with Lauren Iannotti, www.marieclaire.com. September 26, 2007.

• Sometimes when you're doing a comedy, the director will yell out "alts" and then the director gets the first laugh.

  Tina Fey

  Laughing, Directors, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

• Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn't get to be.

  Tina Fey

  Kind, Persons

  Source: collider.com