Quotes from Tina Fey

I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.'

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.

I think everyone's intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college, I discovered that I liked writing and that I was probably a little better at it.

We're all comedy fans in my family. My parents mainly wouldn't let me watch stuff that was either annoying to them, or just garbage. My dad wouldn't let us watch 'The Flintstones' if he was home, because he said it was a rip-off of 'The Honeymooners'. But he would let us stay up really late in the summer and watch old 'Honeymooners'.

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.

I'm not a mean person, but I have a capacity for it.

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.

When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.

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.

It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.

It is less dangerous to draw a cartoon of Allah French-kissing Uncle Sam — which, let me make it very clear, I have not done — than it is to speak honestly about [working moms].

I never get to go to movies, because I'm a mom.

The topic of working moms is a tap-dance recital in a minefield.

Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.

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

I am extremely square and obedient in nature!

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

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

It was reported that the New York Knicks have won all 12 of the home games attended by magician David Blaine. A spokesman for the Knicks said, 'if this is what it takes to win, it's not worth it.'

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.

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

It was reported that Guy Ritchie has cast his wife Madonna in a small walk-on role in his new movie, Revolver. Madonna will play the part of the woman who ruins the film.

If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important Rule of Beauty. "Who cares?"

There are no mistakes only opportunities.