Top 200 Tina Fey Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “I went to the University of Virginia and I came from, I grew up in suburban Philadelphia.”

— Tina Fey

152. “I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, ‘I’ll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.’”

— Tina Fey

153. “President Bush gave a rousing speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Afterward, in a touching show of support, every foreign dignitary shook hands with the president and smiled warmly as he mispronounced their names.”

— Tina Fey

154. “It’s harder to make something good when you can’t curse all the time.”

— Tina Fey

155. “The upsides of acting in things is mostly getting your hair done and having people give you clothes. So as long as you can have a little bit of that in your life, then it’s just as delightful to be behind camera.”

— Tina Fey

156. “Every kid has something they’re good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward.”

— Tina Fey

157. “I think for women especially, you need to have a plan. I need to have some other ways to generate income, so I don’t have to stretch my face or lift the top of my head with surgery or something.”

— Tina Fey

158. “For most women, the success of conservative women is good for all of us, unless you believe in evolution. Actually, I take it back. The whole thing is a disaster.”

— Tina Fey

159. “My favorite day at ‘30 Rock’ is Thursday when the show airs. At lunch, we screen the episodes. For everyone to watch together, to see the stuff we all worked on, to hear the crew laugh – it’s great fun.”

— Tina Fey

160. “In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.”

— Tina Fey

161. “Finally the world would see my full range of comedy characters – from grouchy librarian to Russian librarian.”

— Tina Fey

162. “We’re gonna promote freedom. Usher in democratic values and ideals. And fight terror-loving terrorists.”

— Tina Fey

163. “You can fix it as soon as you get up – you brush and use mouthwash – but there’s something about knowing you woke up with hot-mothball mouth that makes you feel old. I think God designed our mouths to die first to help us slowly transition to the grave.”

— Tina Fey

164. “If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you’re asking actors to do. Learning other skills will help you communicate with people and respect what they do.”

— Tina Fey

165. “That turned-up collar. The jacket that zipped all the way down the front into a nice fitted shape. The white denim that made my untanned skin look like a color.”

— Tina Fey

166. “The same ten minutes that magazines urge me to use for sit-ups and triceps dips, I used for sobbing.”

— Tina Fey

167. “According to a new study, women in satisfying marriages are less likely to develop cardiovascular diseases than unmarried women. So don’t worry, lonely women, you’ll be dead soon.”

— Tina Fey

168. “You mostly know that you want to be funny, know that you have the desire. It’s not like people who grow up beautiful and can look in the mirror and be like, I’m beautiful! Funny is more of a journey. And a desperate attempt.”

— Tina Fey

169. “Was it too much to expect the rest of the world to care about grammar or pay attention to details?”

— Tina Fey

170. “You have to remember that actors are human beings. Which is hard sometimes because they look so much better than human beings.”

— Tina Fey

171. “When actors are too good-looking, I can’t memorize them. For example, I have never seen a picture of Sienna Miller where I didn’t say, “That girl’s pretty. Who is that?”

— Tina Fey

172. “I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it’ll recede. In fact, I know it will. That’s life on Planet Earth. And I’m okay with that. Besides getting tables at restaurants and special treatment at the airport, what else is there?”

— Tina Fey

173. “We all mentally prepare ourselves for wrinkles, but wrinkles are not the problem. It’s the unexpected grosseries.”

— Tina Fey

174. “North Korea threatened to attack if Sony Pictures released The Interview, forcing us all to pretend that we wanted to see it.”

— Tina Fey

175. “Your characters should be as smart as you are, if not smarter.”

— Tina Fey

176. “It is a testament to my parents that they never reacted negatively to the four-year-long pride parade that marched through their house.”

— Tina Fey

177. “I do like to start on time; I like to set the bar high for people.”

— Tina Fey

178. “Boyhood proves that there’s still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you’re under 40.”

— Tina Fey

179. “I think the Web is, you know, things like YouTube and stuff are absolutely where a lot of younger people are watching their TV on iTunes in the Web and YouTube, whatever. So, I think it’s an important place to have a presence.”

— Tina Fey

180. “Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn’t get to be.”

— Tina Fey

181. “I was wearing my best Gap turtleneck and my dates were two adult lesbians, so yea, I was pretty cool.”

— Tina Fey

182. “I am extremely square and obedient in nature!”

— Tina Fey

183. “The ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It’s not forbidden anymore.”

— Tina Fey

184. “I’m more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I’m mostly an improviser, though I haven’t improvised in awhile.”

— Tina Fey

185. “Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.”

— Tina Fey

186. “It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good.”

— Tina Fey

187. “I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it’s terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It’s a dying art, in a way.”

— Tina Fey

188. “My girl Marlene can talk to anyone. She could talk to a Frankenstein about neck bolts.”

— Tina Fey

189. “I was a very confident little kid.”

— Tina Fey

190. “In my limited experience, shows are like children. You can teach them manners and dress them in little sailor suits, but in the end, they’re going to be who they’re going to be.”

— Tina Fey

191. “The Supreme Court is expected to rule this week whether banning cross burning by groups like the Klu Klux Klan violates the first amendment. The outcome could affect the entertainment at Trent Lott’s Christmas party.”

— Tina Fey

192. “I had to get back to work. NBC has me under contract. The baby and I only have a verbal agreement.”

— Tina Fey

193. “I went through a phase where I was sick of acting, I didn’t want to do it anymore, I was bored with it and then I tried directing a movie and I was like: “Shoot, get back over there!” It made me appreciate acting more.”

— Tina Fey

194. “You’re in competition with everyone.”

— Tina Fey

195. “I don’t like a tremendous amount of conflict. I don’t think that fighting and passion are the same thing.”

— Tina Fey

196. “Start with a YES and see where that takes you.”

— Tina Fey

197. “This is your dad, huh?” What are they realizing? I wonder. That they’d better never mess with me, or Don Fey will yell at them? That I have high expectations for the men in my life because I have a strong father figure?”

— Tina Fey

198. “Some photographers are compulsively effusive. “Beautiful. Amazing. Gorgeous! Ugh, so gorgeous!” they yell at shutter speed. If you are anything less than insane, you will realize this is not sincere. It’s hard to take because it’s more positive feedback than you’ve received in your entire life thrown at you in fifteen seconds.”

— Tina Fey

199. “Don’t ever feel inadequate when you look at magazines. Just remember that every person you see on a cover has a bra and underwear hanging out a gaping hole in the back. Everyone.”

— Tina Fey

200. “An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women’s Affairs. Man, who’d she have to show here ankles to to get that job?”

— Tina Fey