Top 200 Tina Fey Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Whatever the problem – be part of the solution.”

— Tina Fey

2. “Just say yes and you’ll figure it out afterwards.”

— Tina Fey

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3. “Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.”

— Tina Fey

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4. “In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.”

— Tina Fey

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5. “Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.”

— Tina Fey

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6. “Life is improvisation.”

— Tina Fey

7. “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.”

— Tina Fey

8. “Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.”

— Tina Fey

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9. “Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.”

— Tina Fey

10. “My work is my work. I take my work seriously but I don’t take myself too seriously.”

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11. “You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.”

— Tina Fey

12. “As an improviser, I always find it jarring when I meet someone in real life whose first answer is no. “No, we can’t do that.” “No, that’s not in the budget.” “No, I will not hold your hand for a dollar.” What kind of way is that to live?”

— Tina Fey

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13. “I believe in process. I believe that having a really difficult process is more valuable than a good outcome.”

— Tina Fey

14. “A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby’s temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who’s boss.”

— Tina Fey

15. “Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.”

— Tina Fey

16. “Sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not.”

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17. “Tracy: Stop eating people’s old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don’t you know you can fly?”

— Tina Fey

18. “If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: who cares?”

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19. “I’m married, you know. I love my husband and I have a child.”

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20. “Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.”

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21. “Don’t be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.”

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22. “You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go.”

— Tina Fey

23. “You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.”

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24. “When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir.”

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25. “I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.”

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26. “I was a little excited but mostly blorft. “Blorft” is an adjective I just made up that means ‘Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.’ I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.”

— Tina Fey

27. “I keep my eyes on the sea, waiting to be rocketed into it on a wave of fire. I’ll be ready for it to happen and that way it won’t happen. It’s a burden, being able to control situations with my hyper-vigilance, but its my lot in life.”

— Tina Fey

28. “Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.”

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29. “And I can see Russia from my house.”

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30. “You must not look in that mirror at your doughy legs and flat feet, for today is about dreams and illusions, and unfiltered natural daylight is the enemy of dreams.”

— Tina Fey

31. “I want every day to be the most boring news day ever. I want every day to be about spelling bee champions and baby basketball. It’s better to have no comedy material than a horrific news day.”

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32. “I don’t want to be somebody else.”

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33. “What Turning Forty Means to Me I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn’t used to have to do that. But now I do.”

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34. “If you are capable people are happy to play with you.”

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35. “In Into the Woods, Cinderella runs from her prince, Rapunzel is thrown from a tower for her prince, and Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby.”

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36. “It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.”

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37. “When I was going to school in, like, ’84 to ’88, you didn’t have cell phones. There was no e-mail, if you can wrap your brain around that.”

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38. “Many of the world’s greatest discoveries have been by accident. I mean, look at the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, or Botox.”

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39. “Why are my arms so weak? It’s like I did that push-up last year for nothing!”

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40. “If these two are tired of having sex with each other, what hope is there for the rest of us?”

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

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42. “Quentin Tarantino is here, star of all my sexual nightmares.”

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43. “I want to spend time with Oprah, and I don’t know what I need to do to make that happen.”

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44. “It’s like being a little kid again, parading around in a nightgown tucked into your underpants, believing it looks terrific.”

— Tina Fey

45. “A new poll showed that 66% of Americans think President Bush is doing a poor job handling the war in Iraq and the remaining 34% think that Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church.”

— Tina Fey

46. “Yeah, it’s tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I’m really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it’s true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in.”

— Tina Fey

47. “It doesn’t matter if it’s a school play or a dumb TV show. It’s your work. You should care about it so much that people get annoyed with you.”

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48. “I think women dress for other women to let them know what their deal is. Because if women were only dressing for men, there would be nothing but Victoria’s Secret. There would be no Dior.”

— Tina Fey

49. “Two peanuts were walking down the street, and one was a salted.”

— Tina Fey

50. “When choosing sexual partners, remember: Talent is not sexually transmittable.”

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