Tina Fey Quotes

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
Tina Fey

Laugh, Down, Old

A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss.
Tina Fey

Best, Medical, School

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

Mom, Happy, Tired

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 here ankles to to get that job?
Tina Fey

Women, Government, Job

I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing.
Tina Fey

School, Girl, Sense

I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.
Tina Fey

Amazing, Amazed, Constantly

I was a very confident little kid.
Tina Fey

I'm married, you know. I love my husband and I have a child.
Tina Fey

Love, Husband, Child

Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool.
Tina Fey

Work, Time, Cool

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.
Tina Fey

Family, Mom, Big

I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I'm with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep. That's basically how we're doing it.
Tina Fey

Life, Dreams, Work

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.
Tina Fey

Laugh, Trying, After

Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in.
Tina Fey

Smart, Husband, Sexy

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

Crazy, Anybody, Feet

I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date.
Tina Fey

Husband, Until, Attractive

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.
Tina Fey

Women, Men, Write

I still want Oprah to play my best friend. I want to spend time with Oprah.
Tina Fey

Time, Best, Friend

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.
Tina Fey

Used, Actor, Though

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.
Tina Fey

Women, Face, Plan

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.'
Tina Fey

Live, Long, Thinking

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.
Tina Fey

Life, Work, Men

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Nationality: American

Born: May 18, 1970

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