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The ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It's not forbidden anymore.

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Tina Fey
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: May 18
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Ladies gotta say no to their husbands at the movies. They gotta say: No, we are watching back-to-back cancer movies. And then this movie about a cat.
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To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.
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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.
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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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Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.
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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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My problem with the traditional acting method was that I never understood what you were supposed to be thinking about when you're onstage.
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I was like, oh, I want to sign up for Catwoman, and then Anne Hathaway had already signed up for it.
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Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? “I’m not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I’m just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I’d like to cut your chest open.” The crowd cheers.
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It is less dangerous to draw a cartoon of Allah French-kissing Uncle Sam — which, let me make it very clear, I have not done — than it is to speak honestly about [working moms].
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Your characters should be as smart as you are, if not smarter.
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I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I've gotta make sense of them. I enjoy helping to develop material for movies, it's a way for me to get into the part.
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When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir.
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Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.
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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.
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I would not trade any of these features for anybody else’s. I wouldn’t trade the small thin-lipped mouth that makes me resemble my nephew. I wouldn’t even trade the acne scar on my right cheek, because that recurring zit spent more time with me in college than any boy ever did.
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I learned quickly that trying to force Country Folk to love the Big City is like telling your gay cousin, You just haven't met the right girl yet.
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One of the great things about doing animated movies is that you don't have to dress up or put on make-up.
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Even when I was at 'SNL,' I didn't do impersonations. I always wanted to be the kind of person who could do them - I always thought they were the coolest thing on the show - but I didn't have any experience.
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The topic of working moms is a tap-dance recital in a minefield.
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