Tina Fey

I am extremely square and obedient in nature!

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

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

It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live tv.

[on Matthew McConaughey] He was always taking his shirt off, he’s like Yeah, here’s my deal, I’m hot.” We had a meeting one day at like 11 o’clock, right before the show and he walks into the meeting shirtless wearing this like old musty sarong… He doesn’t smell great, no.

When choosing sexual partners, remember: talent is not sexually transmittable.

Tell her: jealousy is a disease, die slow.

I really wasn’t heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.

You have to keep reminding yourself it’s not about money, because there is a lot of money to be made in this business if you’re willing to do whatever. But that’s not what I’m thinking about. I continue only to take movies because I love the script and because I really want to do it.

I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other.

Optimism is nice if you can swing it. But you’ve got to be careful, because it can feed into the normalization of Donald Trump. And he is not normal. He’s abnormal. He’s a human What is wrong with this picture?

I don’t have a recollection of mostly anybody I’ve hung out with.

The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I’ve been able to do, they gave me the springboard.

I’m not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain’t me.

There are so many people who are trying to make it in the music business. It’s a very open business, more open I think than any other area of show business.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

I am a big Jeff Richmond fan.

There are positive things that come of social media as well as negative.

I think, really, what it was was that I was raised in a very gray Britain in the 1950s. We were pummeled during the war. A lot of our cities were wrecked and smashed up and as we came out of that, we were baby boomers there; we didn’t have the candy apple red; we didn’t have the big chrome decals; we didn’t have Elvis. So what we did, we came out ferocious. We came out kicking and spitting and it was a reaction to the gray and depletion of our islands….

I don’t want to be somebody else.

Kyle saw the things he didn’t accomplish but he could help Adam accomplish.