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" 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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" 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

" I started writing because I wasn't getting things as an actor. "

" Society has this deeply rooted love of seeing women fail. "

" I'm actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago. "

" I'm a huge fan of Ace of Base. 'The Sign?' I love that song. "

" 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. "

Kay Cannon

Will

I Wonder

" When I finished grad school, I moved to Chicago proper, and I was at all the different improv schools, taking classes or interning. "

" Even if I wrote 'The Kay Cannon Show,' I would have to audition to play Kay Cannon. And I probably wouldn't get it. "

" People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them. "

Kay Cannon

Women

Try

" I took a class at The Second City, and it became contagious. "

" 'Pitch Perfect' was my first screenplay, so it was like my little baby. "

Kay Cannon

Perfect

Little

" I've got to literally write my own ticket. "

" 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. "

" Tell your daughters and their daughters that if they want to be a firewoman, they can be a firewoman. If they want to be an astronaut, they can be an astronaut. If they want to run their own business or run for president, they can do whatever they put their mind to. "

" I've seen 'Bring It On,' like, a thousand times. "

" I would be writing while I was breastfeeding. I didn't want the computer to be too close to her, so it was at an arm's distance away while I was clickety-clack typing away. "

" 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. "

Kay Cannon

Trying

Look

" When I was younger, I wanted my hair to look like Molly Ringwald's. "

Kay Cannon

Hair

Younger

" 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. "

Kay Cannon

Kind

Enough

" I saturated myself with the improv community. "

" I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing. "

" 'Hot Pursuit,' 'Pitch Perfect 2,' 'Trainwreck,' and 'Spy' were all being done in the last year. All four of those movies I just mentioned are not rom-coms: they're all about women doing different things. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was like, 'I have to start writing for myself, to show people what I can do and what my point of view is.' "

" 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? "

" I like it when adult straight men are big fans of 'Pitch Perfect!' "

" '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. "

" You just tell a good story where you're funny and it makes people laugh. "

" I wake up around seven, and I give my daughter breakfast. I spend the first hour or two of her day with her. "