Tina Fey Quotes - Page 7

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• Now let me be clear; millions of women around the world nurse their children beautifully for years without giving anybody else a hard time about it. Teat Nazis are a solely western upper-middle-class phenomenon occurring when highly ambitious women experience deprivation from outside modes of achievement.

  Tina Fey

  Children, Hard Times, Years

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• You can fix it as soon as you get up - you brush and use mouthwash - but there’s something about knowing you woke up with hot-mothball mouth that makes you feel old. I think God designed our mouths to die first to help us slowly transition to the grave.

  Tina Fey

  Thinking, Knowing, Transition

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• If a bout of "creepy face" sets in, the trick is to look away from the camera between shots and turn back only when necessary. This also limits how much of your soul the camera can steal.

  Tina Fey

  Soul, Creepy, Cameras

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.90, Hachette UK

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• Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am all about money. I mean, just look how well my line of zodiac-inspired toe rings and homeopathic children's medications are selling on Home Shopping Network.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Children, Home

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• If these two are tired of having sex with each other, what hope is there for the rest of us?

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Sex, Tired

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• When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir.

  Tina Fey

  Nerd, Chicago, Harvard

  "Lessons from Late Night" by Tina Fey, www.newyorker.com. March 14, 2011.

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• In Into the Woods, Cinderella runs from her prince, Rapunzel is thrown from a tower for her prince, and Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby.

  Tina Fey

  Running, Coffee, Sleep

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• Boyhood proves that there's still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you're under 40.

  Tina Fey

  Long, Roles, Boyhood

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• A new poll showed that 66% of Americans think President Bush is doing a poor job handling the war in Iraq and the remaining 34% think that Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church.

  Tina Fey

  Jobs, War, Thinking

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• If you are capable people are happy to play with you.

  Tina Fey

  Play, People, Ifs

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• Amy Poehler and I have been friends for so long, we're like Oprah and Gale. Only we're not denying anything.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Humor, Long

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• Sleep when your baby sleeps. Everyone knows this classic tip, but I say why stop there? Scream when your baby screams. Take Benadryl when your baby takes Benadryl. And walk around pantless when your baby walks around pantless.

  Tina Fey

  Baby, Sleep, Classic

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 18, 2011.

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• It's not vanity, because if you look weird, it will distract from what your trying to do. If you look as good as you can, people will be able to pay attention to what your actually saying.

  Tina Fey

  Vanity, People, Trying

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• I learned quickly that trying to force Country Folk to love the Big City is like telling your gay cousin, "You just haven't met the right girl yet.

  Tina Fey

  Girl, Country, Cousin

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  People, Ego, Vulnerable

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

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• The New York Post quoted Senator Hillary Clinton saying that she would never run for President, declaring "That is not something I'm going to be doing. "Which in Clinton talk means "I will be President in three years.

  Tina Fey

  Running, New York, Mean

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• I went through a phase where I was sick of acting, I didn't want to do it anymore, I was bored with it and then I tried directing a movie and I was like: "Shoot, get back over there!" It made me appreciate acting more.

  Tina Fey

  Bored, Appreciate, Sick

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think the Web is, you know, things like YouTube and stuff are absolutely where a lot of younger people are watching their TV on iTunes in the Web and YouTube, whatever. So, I think it's an important place to have a presence.

  Tina Fey

  Thinking, People, Important

  "Tina Fey and Jane Krakowski Talk 30 Rock". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 29, 2006.

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• Some people work with a trainer, some people work with a stylist. I work with a celebrity fecalist. A fecalist is basically a person who comes and collects my stools, and then examines them to see if I'm eating right and if I should be drinking more water and what my moods should be.

  Tina Fey

  Drinking, People, Water

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

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• When you have a set of characters, you have to fall in love with them and care about them as each individual character.

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  Falling In Love, Character, Care

  "Guff Interview: Tina Fey on Kimmy Schmidt and Cussing". Interview with Fred Topel, guff.com. March 6, 2015.

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• The upsides of acting in things is mostly getting your hair done and having people give you clothes. So as long as you can have a little bit of that in your life, then it's just as delightful to be behind camera.

  Tina Fey

  Hair, Clothes, Long

  "Guff Interview: Tina Fey on Kimmy Schmidt and Cussing". Interview with Fred Topeд, guff.com. March 6, 2015.

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

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  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.

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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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• 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 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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