“I definitely think of myself still as a writer first, and feel like - with the lucky exception of this - any acting opportunity I've gotten is usually because I was writing on it. This is like a wonderful vacation. If you've ever sat in a writers' room it's the most disgusting, tortuous place, so it's a treat to be treated like a movie actor.” IfsThinkingFeelsWritingFirstsStillsActorsOpportunityRoomsActingWonderfulLuckyTreatsTreatedSatExceptionVacationDisgustingMovie Actors Author:Tina Fey
“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.” PeopleFeelsSometimesCan DoSeeingYou Can Do It Author:Tina Fey
“In order to feel safer on his private jet, actor John Travolta has purchased a bomb-sniffing dog. Unfortunately for the actor, the dog came six movies too late.” FeelsOrderActorsDogSixLateBombsToo LateJetSniffingPrivate Jet Author:Tina Fey
“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.” FeelsYearsFirstsKindFansFeministComedianMainstreamLiliesCrossover Author:Tina Fey
“I feel like there is a lot of inherent humor in the stress and insanity surrounding that process. People lose their minds, trying to prove their parental worth by getting their children into one of five colleges; when there are thousands of good colleges across the United States - and elsewhere.” PeopleFeelsTryingMindChildrenStatesProcessLosesUnitedUnited StatesFiveCollegeProveStressInsanityElsewhereInherentParentalGood College Author:Tina Fey
“I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our society…unless I need it, in which case, everybody be cool.” PeopleWayNeedsFeelsMoralCasesReflectionAbortionTragicOur SocietyDecayBeing CoolPhotoshopBossypantsMoral Decay Author:Tina Fey
“Either way, everything will be fine. But if you have an opinion, please feel free to offer it to me through the gap in the door of a public restroom. Everyone else does.” IfsWayFeelsDoeOpinionDoorsFinePleaseOffersWittyGapsRestroom Book:Bossypants Source: Bossypants
“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.” ThinkingFeelsFirstsHelpingUseDiesKnowingMouthsHotGravesGet UpTransitionBrushes Author:Tina Fey
“Seriously, I've just realized that almost everyone is a fraud, so I try not to feel too bad about it.” FeelsTryingFraudJust Realized Author:Tina Fey
“Sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not.” WantFeelsSometimesCoursesWittyProductiveSaturdayControl Of Your Life Author:Tina Fey
“This is what I tell young women who ask me for career advice. People are going to try to trick you. To make you feel that you are in competition with one another. You're up for a promotion. If they go for a woman, it'll be between you and Barbara. Don't be fooled. You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.” PeopleIfsFeelsTryingYoungAsksCareersAdviceCompetitionWittyTricksAsk MeYoung WomenPromotionFooledBarbaraCareer AdviceBossypants Author:Tina Fey
“I love to play strippers and to imitate them. I love using that idea for comedy, but the idea of actually going there? I feel like we all need to be better than that. That industry needs to die, by all of us being a little bit better than that.” NeedsFeelsLittlesIdeasPlayDiesBitsComedyIndustryLittle Bit Author:Tina Fey
“I don't weigh myself. I just go by if my clothes fit. I try not to participate too much in the incredible amount of wasted energy that women have around dealing with food. I just feel like being healthy is sort of a job requirement to be on TV, and being a writer is so much coping with fatigue and stress, and you just eat. You eat to stay awake.” IfsFeelsTryingJobsEnergyToo MuchTvsAmountFitHealthyClothesStressIncrediblesAwakeRequirementsFatigueCoping Author:Tina Fey
“If you ever start to feel good about yourself... .... they have this thing called the internet.” IfsFeelsInternetFeel GoodAbout Yourself Author:Tina Fey
“Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying.” FeelsActingShowing Up Author:Tina Fey
“When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.” PeopleFeelsRealWorking ItClarifying Author:Tina Fey
“Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They were about work friendships and relationships, which is what I feel my adult life has mostly been about.” MenFeelsStoriesLinesAdultsDatingMaryWorking WomenFriendships And Relationships Author:Tina Fey
