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Tina Fey, born on May 18, 1970, is an accomplished American actress, writer, and comedian. She gained fame for her work on 'Saturday Night Live' and has since starred in numerous films. Fey is recognized for her humorous and witty performance style.

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“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.”

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“The upsides of acting in things is mostly getting your hair done and having people give you clothes. So as long as you can have a little bit of that in your life, then it's just as delightful to be behind camera.”

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“I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.' I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.”

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“It's like being a little kid again, parading around in a nightgown tucked into your underpants, believing it looks terrific.”

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“Luxury cruises were designed to make something unbearable (a two week transatlantic crossing) seem bearable. There's no need to do it now, there are planes. You wouldn't take a vacation where you ride on a stage coach for two months but there's all-you-can-eat shrimp. You wouldn't take a vacation where you had an old-timey appendectomy without anesthesia while steel drums play. You might take a vacation while riding on a camel for two days IF they gave you those little animal towels wearing your sunglasses.”

“Ah, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.”

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Source: Bossypants

“There's a Drunk Midget in My House Ah, babies! They're more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts. Like most people who have had one baby, I am an expert on everythiing and will tell you, unsolicited, how to raise your kid!”

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“Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?”

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Book:Bossypants

Source: Bossypants

“In my limited experience, shows are like children. You can teach them manners and dress them in little sailor suits, but in the end, they're going to be who they're going to be.”

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“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.”

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“I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age.”

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“I was a very confident little kid.”

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“I dreamed of being an actress when I was a little kid because you don't know then that the writer writes everything the actor is saying. But as I got older, I got into college and became more aware that writing is another option, and I started getting into it, too.”

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Author:Tina Fey

About the Author

Born: May 18, 1970
Known for: Actress
Quotes: 354

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