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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 got to literally write my own ticket. "

" Tina Fey is my mentor, whether she likes it or not. "

" '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. "

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

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

" I started writing for myself because I know how to write for myself. I know how to show what I can do. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

Kay Cannon

Makes

Who

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

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

Kay Cannon

Hair

Younger

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

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

" I have to say, my husband is a big Patriots fan. Like, a huge Patriots fan. "

Kay Cannon

Say

Husband

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

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

" 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. "

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

Kay Cannon

Perfect

Little

" I love that feeling, that feeling of team. "

" I loved all the people involved with '30 Rock.' "

" I was crazy poor, but I was learning and putting myself out there and getting hired to do whatever gig I could and auditioning. "

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

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

" 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. "