Tina Fey Quotes

I found the recording sessions very freeing because you can really try things. When you're filming something, if you're improvising a film and you're wasting film and wasting a cameraman's time.

My mom wanted me to apply to Princeton, cause she just I guess since I was a kid had this dream that I would apply to Princeton, and it was not happening.

I really like John McCain. He's an awesome dude and was a lot of fun when he hosted "SNL." I'd love to see a McCain-Giuliani "rage" ticket.

[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.

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

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

The thing that always fascinated me about improv is that it's basically a happy accident that you think you're initiating.

My problem with the traditional acting method was that I never understood what you were supposed to be thinking about when you're onstage.

One of the great things about doing animated movies is that you don't have to dress up or put on make-up.

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

For most women, the success of conservative women is good for all of us, unless you believe in evolution. Actually, I take it back. The whole thing is a disaster.

We're gonna promote freedom. Usher in democratic values and ideals. And fight terror-loving terrorists.

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.

Sometimes, you can feel or see how a movie can... how you can do it. Sometimes it's just like seeing, "Can that work? Will people buy that? Can we do that?" And all those checkmarks.

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

The barrier between TV and movies has come down and film actors are willing to do TV and vice versa, because they just want to follow what's interesting.

"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.

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

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

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

You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated.

the best of" show was completely gone and we were in big trouble, except we didn't really care.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You've gotta stop calling each sl*ts and wh*r*s. That just makes it more okay for GUYS to call you sl*ts and wh*r*s.

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.

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

Lorne knows that the most exhausting people occasionally turn out the best stuff.

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

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.

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.

Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live, ' and that is so cool.