Tina Fey Quotes

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Tina Fey

Profession : Comedian

Birth : May 18, 1970

I still want Oprah to play my best friend. I want to spend time with Oprah.

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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.

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I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date.

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I was a very confident little kid.

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Even when I was at 'SNL,' I didn't do impersonations. I always wanted to be the kind of person who could do them - I always thought they were the coolest thing on the show - but I didn't have any experience.

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You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone.

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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.

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I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other. And I don't think anyone's really doing it.

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I think the world has too many actresses.

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Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying.

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I really wasn't heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.

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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.

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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.

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If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you're asking actors to do. Learning other skills will help you communicate with people and respect what they do.

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I remember failing my Princeton interview. My mom wanted me to apply because ever since I was a kid she had this dream that I would apply to Princeton, but it was just not happening.

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I have two daughters, and we live here in Manhattan, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever rival the stress of that.

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

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I don't like a tremendous amount of conflict. I don't think that fighting and passion are the same thing.

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I am extremely square and obedient in nature!

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I feel like I represent normalcy in some way.

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