Quotes from Tina Fey

We're all comedy fans in my family. My parents mainly wouldn't let me watch stuff that was either annoying to them, or just garbage. My dad wouldn't let us watch 'The Flintstones' if he was home, because he said it was a rip-off of 'The Honeymooners'. But he would let us stay up really late in the summer and watch old 'Honeymooners'.

When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.

It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.

The topic of working moms is a tap-dance recital in a minefield.

Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.

It's easy to fall into the trap of just cranking out things that are good enough to sell.

Ah, babies! They're more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.

If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important Rule of Beauty. "Who cares?"

I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math.

Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.

After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy was. I moved from Charlottesville to Chicago, because that's where The Second City and Improv Olympics are. You have to go wherever you need to go to study what interests you.