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" I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. "
Tina Fey
Husband
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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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" 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. "
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" When I was really young, I loved the movie 'White Christmas' - I still do - and I thought Rosemary Clooney was so pretty. When I was, like, nine, I would tell people, 'You know who I kind of look like? Rosemary Clooney.' "
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" I still want Oprah to play my best friend. I want to spend time with Oprah. "
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" My favorite day at '30 Rock' is Thursday when the show airs. At lunch, we screen the episodes. For everyone to watch together, to see the stuff we all worked on, to hear the crew laugh - it's great fun. "
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" When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real. "
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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 was a very confident little kid. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" I have two daughters, and we live here in Manhattan, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever rival the stress of that. "
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Two
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" The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh. I was an obedient girl, and humor was my one form of rebellion. I used comedy to deflect. Like, 'Hey, check out my zit!' - you know, making fun of yourself before someone else has a chance to. "
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" Doing one movie every two years is about all I can handle 'cause, being the creator at '30 Rock', my year there starts in the middle of June and goes back around until March. "
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" I'm a big fan of 'The Office', both the British and the American versions. "
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British
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" I don't like my feet. I'm not crazy about anybody's feet. But I have flat feet. "
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Like
" I do like to start on time; I like to set the bar high for people. "
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Bar
People
Time
" The ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It's not forbidden anymore. "
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Comfortable
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" I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it'll recede. In fact, I know it will. That's life on Planet Earth. And I'm okay with that. Besides getting tables at restaurants and special treatment at the airport, what else is there? "
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Life
" 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 want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities. "
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" I am extremely square and obedient in nature! "
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" Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying. "
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" Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy. "
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" 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. "
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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 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. "
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Face
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" 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. "
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Boston
" I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies. "
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