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Tina Fey is an American comedian, writer, actress, and producer. She is best known for her work as a writer on the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live and the creator and star of the NBC sitcom 30 Rock. She was nominated for 13 Emmy Awards, winning four with 30 Rock.
Tina Fey was born in 1970 in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania, to Donald Henry Fey Jr., a university administrator, and Donna Marie Maher. Fey has German ancestry on her father’s side of the family. While growing up in Pennsylvania, she first became interested in comedy at age 11 when she read Thirteen Jokes by John F. Kennedy, which he hand wrote for President Lyndon B. Johnson that he would tell to make him laugh during tense times Cold War.
She is also recognized for her constantly refreshing style, sarcasm, and self-deprecating humor she often employs.
Check out her most inspiring quotes that will give you a different perspective on challenges:
37 Most Inspiring Tina Fey Quotes
“Your characters should be as smart as you are, if not smarter.”
“Confidence is 10 per cent hard work and 90 per cent delusion.”
“You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go.”
“Say yes and you’ll figure it out afterwards.”
“You must not look in that mirror at your doughy legs and flat feet, for today is about dreams and illusions, and unfiltered natural daylight is the enemy of dreams.”
“Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.”
“For most women, the success of conservative women is good for all of us, unless you believe in evolution. Actually, I take it back. The whole thing is a disaster.”
“Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions … Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.”
“One of the great things about doing animated movies is that you don’t have to dress up or put on make-up.”
“Make statements, with your actions and your voice.”
“You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the water slide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.”
“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.”
“Sometimes if you have a difficult decision to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.”
“Never tell a crazy person he’s crazy.”
“It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good.”
“You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.”
“It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.”
“If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: who cares?”
“You have to remember that actors are human beings. Which is hard sometimes because they look so much better than human beings.”
“Your initiations are worthwhile.”
“Instead of trying to fit an impossible ideal, I took a personal inventory of all my healthy body parts for which I am grateful.”
“I believe in process. I believe that having a really difficult process is more valuable than a good outcome.”
“Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.”
“To this day, all I know is there are between two and four openings down there and that the set up inside looks vaguely like the Texas Longhorns logo.”
“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.’”
“There are no mistakes, only opportunities.”
“Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.”
“When faced with sexism or ageism or lookism or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: ‘Is this person in between me and what I want to do?’ If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way.”
“It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.”
“Either way, everything will be fine.”
“You go through big chunks of time where you’re just thinking, ‘this is impossible – oh,this is impossible’. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.”
“To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.”
“…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.”
“If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet, and you can find a lot of people there who don’t like you.”
“Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.”
“Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.”
“In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.”
“Don’t be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.”
