A biography for Tina Feyhasn’t been written yet.
“When I was really young, I loved the movie 'White Christmas' - I still do - and I thought Rosemary Clooney was so pretty. When I was, like, nine, I would tell people, 'You know who I kind of look like? Rosemary Clooney.'”
“[T]he definition of 'crazy' in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.”
“I think everyone's intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college, I discovered that I liked writing and that I was probably a little better at it.”
“I was a very confident little kid.”
“We spent days and weeks doing nothing, calling one another ten times a day to schedule our nothing-doing.”
“Sometimes people expect that I'm going to be tough. It's not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.”
“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.”
“I don't enjoy any kind of danger or volatility. I don't have that kind of 'I love the bad guys' thing. No, no thank you. I like nice people.”
“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.”
“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.”
“After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy was. I moved from Charlottesville to Chicago, because that's where The Second City and Improv Olympics are. You have to go wherever you need to go to study what interests you.”
“I have one top-notch baby with whom I am in love. It's a head-over-heels "first love" kind of thing, because I pay for everything and all we do is hold hands.”
“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
“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.”
“Everyone is quiet. Which is the wooooooorst. It’s scary when a group of people all know instinctively not to joke around.”
“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.”
“I am extremely square and obedient in nature!”
“Twitter seems like a busman's holiday: just more writing. I have no plans to do it. I'll just stick with my 24/7 webcam. I'm old-fashioned that way.”
“Doing one movie every two years is about all I can handle 'cause, being the creator at '30 Rock', my year there starts in the middle of June and goes back around until March.”
“When I started on 'Saturday Night Live,' I had the choice of wearing contact lenses, which I had never worn before, or glasses, in order to be able to read the cue cards.”