Quotes from Tina Fey

I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math.

You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated.

I was a very confident little kid.

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

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.

Every kid has something they're good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward.

I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, 'Well, they get pie. It's not so bad. They get pie on the weekends.' I want to say blueberry and also a Boston cream pie. Not so bad.

I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.

I'm not that good looking... nobody is that good looking. I have seen a lot of movie stars, and maybe four are amazing looking. The rest have a team of gay guys who make it happen.

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.

You can point any kind of laser at my face, but I don't think Botox is for me. I think it is bad. People who have too much, they look like their faces are full of candles - a shiny, shiny face.

An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show her ankles to to get that job?

I think people fetishize glasses in general. You could put glasses on a rotting pumpkin and people would think it was sexy.

I don't like my feet. I'm not crazy about anybody's feet. But I have flat feet.

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.

Obviously, as an adult I realize this girl-on-girl sabotage is the third worst kind of female behavior, right behind saying "like" all the time and leaving your baby in a dumpster.

I am going to dedicate myself, full time, to my day-drinking.

When I turned 50, I looked in the mirror and I thought: "Hey, this isn't the dress rehearsal, this is life and I don't know how much longer I'm going to have!"

...I can't possibly take time off for a second baby, unless I do, in which case that is nobody's business and I'll never regret it for a moment unless it ruins my life.

No other formula gives your baby a better start in life except that stuff that comes out of you for free.

Life is improvisation. All of those [improv] classes were like church to me. The training had seeped into me and changed who I am.

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

I like to delude myself that I'm in the old-Hollywood mode. I just tailor my clothes well and try to keep my skin clear. While it would be great to work out an hour a day, there is something inherently sort of selfish about it. I can't do it.