Top 30 Kay Cannon Quotes

I started writing because I wasn’t getting things as an actor.

People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.

There’s still only maybe three female writers or two female writers to 10 guys in any kind of writer’s room.

When I was in college, I started an improv group, and I did a bunch of plays and some musicals. I have a theater degree. I’m a school person: I like getting homework and having deadlines. When I graduated, I worked right away as an actor.

I like it when adult straight men are big fans of ‘Pitch Perfect!’

I started writing when I was trying to be an actor, and I happened to be friends with Tina Fey, who happened to have her show ’30 Rock’ coming out. So Tina, who happens to be a mentor to me, gave me my slot and hired me.

I love that feeling, that feeling of team.

I’m actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago.

I’ve seen ‘Bring It On,’ like, a thousand times.

I’ve got to literally write my own ticket.

I would be writing while I was breastfeeding. I didn’t want the computer to be too close to her, so it was at an arm’s distance away while I was clickety-clack typing away.

I’m a huge fan of Ace of Base. ‘The Sign?’ I love that song.

‘Pitch Perfect’ was my first screenplay, so it was like my little baby.

Society has this deeply rooted love of seeing women fail.

I didn’t set out to write some female-empowering movie; I just wanted to write a funny college comedy.

I was the runt of the family, the shortest and the smallest, so I think they perceived me as the one who was like, ‘Look at me!’ – just trying to get their attention and being a goofball.

I started writing for myself because I know how to write for myself. I know how to show what I can do.

I was crazy poor, but I was learning and putting myself out there and getting hired to do whatever gig I could and auditioning.

I was a writer on ’30 Rock’ for six years.

We have a lot of depressed people in the world because they don’t know what their purpose is in life.

I was working at ‘New Girl’ when I found out there was going to be a ‘Pitch’ sequel.

I played volleyball and basketball, and I did track and volleyball in college.

I feel like the guilds are, just to be frank, people I pay money to.

I have to say, my husband is a big Patriots fan. Like, a huge Patriots fan.

Ultimately, I want to direct a movie, so that’s another thing, too, where I wonder what that will look like and how will I be able to manage.

When I finished grad school, I moved to Chicago proper, and I was at all the different improv schools, taking classes or interning.

I was like, ‘I have to start writing for myself, to show people what I can do and what my point of view is.’

I was auditioning a lot in L.A., and I was actually getting called back a lot for sitcoms. But I wasn’t getting jobs. I even tested for ‘Saturday Night Live’ and didn’t get that.

You never imagine that the Green Bay Packers were going to be in something you wrote or singing ‘Bootylicious.’

I was in relays for track where you just bonded with all these different kinds of personalities who were coming together for this one common goal of beating a rival team.