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" I love that feeling, that feeling of team. "
Kay Cannon
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" I wake up around seven, and I give my daughter breakfast. I spend the first hour or two of her day with her. "
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" On '30 Rock,' the hours were really intense, and I was often on set. I'm glad I didn't have a kid then because I don't think I would have ever seen her. I would work 15-hour days, and weekends, too. "
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" No one ever actually said they were resistant because 'Pitch Perfect' was female-centric. When a project is sitting there for a while, you start to speculate about what could be the thing that might be a little tricky about it. "
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Perfect
" When I was in college, I started an improv group, and I did a bunch of plays and some musicals. I have a theater degree. I'm a school person: I like getting homework and having deadlines. When I graduated, I worked right away as an actor. "
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Group
School
Person
" I was in relays for track where you just bonded with all these different kinds of personalities who were coming together for this one common goal of beating a rival team. "
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Together
Different
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" On the set of 'Girlboss,' I had to keep introducing myself as the show runner - literally, 'Hi, I'm the boss' - to a lot of my crew. My first AD said, 'Why do you keep doing that?' I said, 'Because I get mistaken for an extra.' "
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" Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, they made it cool to be funny and to be embarrassed and to look a thousand different ways and show a bunch of different areas of their lives. "
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Look
Different
Cool
" I was the runt of the family, the shortest and the smallest, so I think they perceived me as the one who was like, 'Look at me!' - just trying to get their attention and being a goofball. "
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Me
Trying
Look
" Tina Fey is my mentor, whether she likes it or not. "
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Tina
She
Mentor
" When I finished grad school, I moved to Chicago proper, and I was at all the different improv schools, taking classes or interning. "
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School
Improv
Chicago
" You just tell a good story where you're funny and it makes people laugh. "
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People
Story
Funny
" I started writing because I wasn't getting things as an actor. "
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Started
Writing
Because
" I like it when adult straight men are big fans of 'Pitch Perfect!' "
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Men
Big
Adult
" Ultimately, I want to direct a movie, so that's another thing, too, where I wonder what that will look like and how will I be able to manage. "
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Will
Like
I Wonder
" I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing. "
Kay Cannon
Work
Long
I Can
" I ran track in college. And that team, that all-lady team that I was on, I can remember just being so incredibly sad that I knew we were all going to leave each other after we graduated and that our lives would change. And even though I was the bridesmaid at all their weddings and stuff like that, it's just not the same, right? "
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Team
Change
College
" Even if I wrote 'The Kay Cannon Show,' I would have to audition to play Kay Cannon. And I probably wouldn't get it. "
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Wrote
Show
Play
" I feel like the guilds are, just to be frank, people I pay money to. "
Kay Cannon
Money
People
Pay
" I was crazy poor, but I was learning and putting myself out there and getting hired to do whatever gig I could and auditioning. "
Kay Cannon
Myself
Crazy
Whatever
" There's still only maybe three female writers or two female writers to 10 guys in any kind of writer's room. "
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Three
Room
Writer
" 'Bridesmaids,' I think, opened up a door to allow women to show a bunch of different women in different ways of being funny. It was kind of like an arrival moment. "
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Women
Think
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" Second City Las Vegas is very different from Second City in Chicago on the main stage, where they do improv sets. That's how they kind of hone material, kind of work up to new material. "
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" I've seen 'Bring It On,' like, a thousand times. "
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Times
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Seen
" We're big 'Game of Thrones' fans, so we call our house King's Landing. I have a studio apartment above our garage that we call Winterfell. I go to Winterfell to write. "
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House
King
Apartment
" I didn't set out to write some female-empowering movie; I just wanted to write a funny college comedy. "
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" We have a lot of depressed people in the world because they don't know what their purpose is in life. "
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World
Life
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" I wasn't, like, pretty enough to be the ingenue; I wasn't 'character' enough to be the goofball sidekick. I'm kind of ethnically ambiguous. "
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Like
Kind
Enough
" I was auditioning a lot in L.A., and I was actually getting called back a lot for sitcoms. But I wasn't getting jobs. I even tested for 'Saturday Night Live' and didn't get that. "
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Night
Saturday
Get
" I started writing when I was trying to be an actor, and I happened to be friends with Tina Fey, who happened to have her show '30 Rock' coming out. So Tina, who happens to be a mentor to me, gave me my slot and hired me. "
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Rock
Friends