Top 35 Fey Quotes

Tina Fey is one of my heroes.

All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O’Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don’t have that kind of wit and genius. We don’t do that. We sit down and have some accidents.

Tina Fey writes crazy, off-color, racist, hilarious stuff for ’30 Rock,’ but it’s always funny because you’re in this almost two-dimensional world where there’s Jenna Maroney and these over-the-top characters. That’s the framework.

I love ’30 Rock’ because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.

I had not met Tina Fey before I auditioned for ’30 Rock’. Some people think we’re old friends from ‘Second City’ days. I had always been a fan of Tina’s. But I actually never planned on being in a sitcom.

I’ve always been a huge fan of Tina Fey’s. She’s a very unique storyteller and has such a great voice and sense of character and comedy, and manages to do things that are oftentimes very broad but still have a lot of heart to them.

A lot of people ask, ‘What’s the best advice Tina Fey’s given you?’ But she doesn’t, like, go about doling out advice – like, ‘I’ve got another tip for you!’

Tina Fey is my mentor, whether she likes it or not.

I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.

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.

Tina Fey could run this country before Sarah Palin could!

For Lennon and me, we grew up with Laverne and Shirley or Lucy and Ethel. For us, those are our inspirations. And I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey led the way for us to be fearless in the way we kept shoving our message and our comedy voice down people’s throats until they listened.

If you want a great replacement, like, who can follow Barack and still have that swag, that charisma, that charm and be historic – I think it would be Tina Fey for president.

I want to be host of ‘SNL.’ I want to work with Steven Spielberg, Leonardo DiCaprio, J.J. Abrams, Emma Stone and Tim Burton, Sean Penn, Cameron Crowe. I want to work with Adam Sandler – he is so funny – and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

I remember thinking, ‘If I can make Tina Fey laugh, I can die happy.’

Anyone watching ’30 Rock’ always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of herself, a workaholic comedy writer who also plays one on TV. She’s the boss; Liz Lemon just works here.

I love Tina Fey because she acts and she writes and she’s hilarious and does a lot of different things.

I had done some small-sketch stuff in college, and at that time, Tina Fey was becoming a heavy influence on my life and my world. I decided I wanted to do what she was doing.

When I heard that they were making ‘Mean Girls’ into a musical, I immediately said, ‘That’s my part. I want to play Janis so badly.’ And I wanted to hang out with Tina Fey! What’s cooler than that?

I hired Tina Fey for ‘SNL,’ which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.

Tina Fey is a genius – I’ve seen it with my own eyes now. She’s a very observant person, and I’ve never seen somebody write such a high volume or as quickly as she does.

Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: ‘Laverne and Shirley’, ‘Starsky and Hutch 3’, ‘Cagney and Lacey’, ‘Wonder Twins Activate From Two Hot Broads’, ‘Little House on the Prairie: The Musical: The Movie’.

Amy Poehler and Tina Fey are so cool together.

Tina Fey’s autobiography is very, very funny and very well written. It’s her life story: it’s about how she grows up in New York. There’s no obvious reason why I should enjoy this – I mean, this is the autobiography of a woman in her early 40s in New York. I’m a guy from a small town in Denmark.

My motto is ‘In Tina Fey I trust.’

Anybody can reach anywhere from five to 15 million people weekly making a president look like an idiot, as I did back then, or Tina Fey did with Sarah Palin… You’re always preaching to the choir one way or the other.

I’d love to hear what confident, intelligent women in the industry have to say: Rachel McAdams, Carey Mulligan, Angelina Jolie, Kristen Wiig and Tina Fey. I would stand in line all day for that panel.

’30 Rock’ is my favorite TV show and Tina Fey is one of my heroes. She was a dream to work with and the whole cast was just absolutely lovely.

I love to read books by women I look up to who are smart, funny, and interesting, like Tina Fey’s ‘Bossypants’ and Mindy Kaling’s ‘Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?’

Tina Fey is just amazing. And she is just so funny and so good hearted.

I really want to be the black Tina Fey, where I just am able to produce my own content and produce other content for other minority filmmakers and put their voices on screen and basically be able to have free range to produce.

I love a lot of comedy actors and actresses like Kristen Wiig and Tina Fey and all those women who are really brilliant and funny.

Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at ‘Second City,’ ‘SNL,’ in sitcoms and in film.

Tina Fey, a performer and head writer for ‘Saturday Night Live,’ has deftly adapted Rosalind Wiseman’s nonfiction dissection of teenage girl societal interaction, ‘Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence.’

I absolutely loved Tina Fey’s ‘Bossypants’ and didn’t want it to end. It’s hilarious as well as important. Not only did I laugh on every page, but I was nodding along, highlighting and dog-earing like crazy.