Tina Fey Quotes - Page 12

Your initiations are worthwhile.

The same ten minutes that magazines urge me to use for sit-ups and triceps dips, I used for sobbing.

I have a suspicion that the definition of "crazy" in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to f*** [sleep with her] anymore.

If everyone had a dad like mine, no one would have sex tapes.

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.

We should leave people alone about their weight. Being skinny for a while (provided you actually eat food and don't take pills or smoke to get there) is a perfectly fine pastime. Everyone should try it once, like a super-short haircut or dating a white guy.

You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come to see you, and so they kind of know what they're in for. In television, you are sort of sneaking into people's homes. So, I think you can be a little bit darker on stage.

I want to spend time with Oprah and I don't know what I need to do to make that happen.

[...] things most people do naturally are often inexplicably difficult for me.

I'm a big fan of 'The Office,' both the British and the American versions.

You all have got to stop calling each other sluts and whores. It only makes it okay for guys to call you sluts and whores.

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

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

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

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

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.

I don't know how many more movies I'm going to get the opportunity to make and I don't want to look back and go: "Man, I just floated through that one." Or: "I did that one for the money." I want to be able to say that I worked as a hard as I could and I did the best work that I could do.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

Every day I wrote in my journal: "How am I going to win today?" So that when the guys are talking about water-boarding I'm telling them they haven't even got the right towels.

Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.

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

I'm not a fan of purposely farting in front of other people. If you have to fart, leave the room.