Tina Fey, Bossypants Quotes

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.

(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)

Whitney Houston’s cover of “I Will Always Love You” was constantly on my FM Walkman radio around that time. I think that made me cry because I associated it with absolutely no one.

You all watched a sketch about feminism and you didn't even know it because of all the jokes. It's like when Jessica Seinfeld puts spinach in kids' brownies. Suckers!

It's one thing to be a wisecracking precocious teen hanging out with twenty-seven year olds.It's another thing to get in the way of a grown man trying to get laid.

Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

I have a strong urge to lie down and pretend this is not happening—like the old couple in Titanic.

(Don Fey had a large rubber stamp that said "bullshit, " which was and is awesome.)

I find, the fancier the fashion magazine is, the worse the Photoshop. It’s as if they are already so disgusted that a human has to be in the clothes, they can’t stop erasing human features.

5) The Eyes Are the Windows to Where the Soul Is Supposed to Be

So, to sum up my room-clearing generalizations, men are in comedy to break rules.

Only in comedy, by the way, does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity

In improv there are no mistakes, only beautiful happy accidents. And many of the world’s greatest discoveries have been by accident.

(My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.)

Someone should do a study of the human brain and how quickly it can adjust to luxury.

Everyone is quiet. Which is the wooooooorst. It’s scary when a group of people all know instinctively not to joke around.

I have one top-notch baby with whom I am in love. It's a head-over-heels "first love" kind of thing, because I pay for everything and all we do is hold hands.

Was it too much to expect the rest of the world to care about grammar or pay attention to details?

We spent days and weeks doing nothing, calling one another ten times a day to schedule our nothing-doing.

Don't hire anyone you wouldn't want to run into in the hallway at three in the morning.