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. Tina Fey More Quotes by Tina Fey More Quotes From Tina Fey I don't know how many more movies I'm going to get the opportunity to make and I don't want to look back and go: "Man, I just floated through that one." Or: "I did that one for the money." I want to be able to say that I worked as a hard as I could and I did the best work that I could do. Tina Fey able opportunity men Sometimes, you can feel or see how a movie can... how you can do it. Sometimes it's just like seeing, "Can that work? Will people buy that? Can we do that?" And all those checkmarks. Tina Fey feels sometimes people Sometimes when you're doing a comedy, the director will yell out "alts" and then the director gets the first laugh. Tina Fey laughing directors firsts Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn't get to be. Tina Fey kind persons 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 growing-up journey beautiful The barrier between TV and movies has come down and film actors are willing to do TV and vice versa, because they just want to follow what's interesting. Tina Fey actors vices interesting [Television] is a great medium for writers, because there's just no time for a studio to interfere very long. You write it, you shoot it; it's on TV. Tina Fey writing long television The thing that always fascinated me about improv is that it's basically a happy accident that you think you're initiating. Tina Fey happy-accidents accidents thinking My problem with the traditional acting method was that I never understood what you were supposed to be thinking about when you're onstage. Tina Fey acting problem thinking There should be a new, more honest euphemism. Like, I'm leaving office because I plan to solicit more anonymous sex in bathrooms. Tina Fey leaving office sex I don't live the single life and never really did. Tina Fey single-life Growing up as a girl is always traumatizing, especially when you have the deadly combination of greasy skin and getting your boobs at ten. But I think it's good to grow up that way. It builds character. Tina Fey growing-up girl funny 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 clothes hair long I had a gentleman in college tell me, during a date, that I could be really pretty if I lost some weight. On a date! Tina Fey gentleman weight college I definitely think of myself still as a writer first, and feel like - with the lucky exception of this - any acting opportunity I've gotten is usually because I was writing on it. This is like a wonderful vacation. If you've ever sat in a writers' room it's the most disgusting, tortuous place, so it's a treat to be treated like a movie actor. Tina Fey writing opportunity thinking Not only is my wardrobe totally average, my body's totally average. I love all the candy-fantasy fulfillment of Sex and the City. Tina Fey cities average sex Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy. Tina Fey nine television years In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor. Tina Fey real-life real people 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 important people thinking I don't really have a nemesis, but I have a series of hundreds of small enemies that fuel me. Everyone I meet I assume is out to get me and that fuels my fire on a daily basis. Tina Fey fuel fire enemy
