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" I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point. "
Tina Fey
Point
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" 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. "
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" I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies. "
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" If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities. "
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" I do like to start on time; I like to set the bar high for people. "
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" I never get to go to movies, because I'm a mom. "
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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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" Sometimes people expect that I'm going to be tough. It's not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady and push him down the stairs. To make a comedy writer laugh, you have to push a real old lady down the stairs. I don't know who that's attributed to. I think it's Aristophanes. Or Catherine the Great. "
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" I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way. "
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" I feel like I represent normalcy in some way. "
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" 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. "
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You
Life
" I don't want to be somebody else. "
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" I'm a big fan of 'The Office', both the British and the American versions. "
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Fan
Office
" 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. "
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" I want to spend time with Oprah, and I don't know what I need to do to make that happen. "
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" 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. "
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City
College
" 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.' "
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" I don't enjoy any kind of danger or volatility. I don't have that kind of 'I love the bad guys' thing. No, no thank you. I like nice people. "
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" You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone. "
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" I really wasn't heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school. "
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" 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'. "
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" Twitter seems like a busman's holiday: just more writing. I have no plans to do it. I'll just stick with my 24/7 webcam. I'm old-fashioned that way. "
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" I'm not a mean person, but I have a capacity for it. "
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" I think people fetishize glasses in general. You could put glasses on a rotting pumpkin and people would think it was sexy. "
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" Every kid has something they're good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward. "
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Find
" The ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It's not forbidden anymore. "
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" For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, 'Okay, that happened, and I did not die.' You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it. "
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