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

Kay Cannon

School

Improv

Chicago

" I was a writer on '30 Rock' for six years. "

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

" I didn't set out to write some female-empowering movie; I just wanted to write a funny college comedy. "

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

" It's not about having luck; it's about putting yourself in a position of luck. "

" We have a lot of depressed people in the world because they don't know what their purpose is in life. "

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

Kay Cannon

Women

Try

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" Writers who sit down and write might judge what they're putting down, but I always just try to barf it out. I'm writing crap, but I'll put it down. "

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

" '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. "

" 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. "

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

" I saturated myself with the improv community. "

" Everything that makes us who we are is A-O.K. "

Kay Cannon

Makes

Who

" 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. "

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

Kay Cannon

Perfect

Little

" I played volleyball and basketball, and I did track and volleyball in college. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I feel like the guilds are, just to be frank, people I pay money to. "

" 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. "