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.
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!’
I love Tina Turner. I’m one of Tina Turner’s biggest fans. Tina Turner was a big influence on me to become a singer. A role model and in a way she gave me back my confidence in choosing my material.
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.
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.
Amy Poehler and Tina Fey are so cool together.
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, 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 think the parenting of Tina and myself combined allowed our kids to really find their passion at an early age.
Normally, it’s one or the other – a pretty, straight woman or a more charactery woman who isn’t supposed to be attractive. But women like Tina Fey are leading the charge on being both. You can be funny and attractive.
I am Tina Yothers and I’ll never be anyone different.
I saw Tina Turner do ‘Proud Mary’ on TV, and it was so electrifying and such a unique experience. I remember crying out of excitement, and I knew that I wanted to be a performer and make people feel excited and moved, and that’s why I gravitated towards it.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, they made it cool to be funny and to be embarrassed and to look a thousand different ways and show a bunch of different areas of their lives.
I really like sardonicism and wit. I love the writing of Joy Williams and Lorrie Moore. I like Tina Fey, Amy Schumer.
We have so many great memoirs from women in front of the camera, from Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling, Amy Poehler, and Amy Schumer.
When we talk about my music, it’s a cross between Tina Turner, Alanis Morrisette, and Diana Ross. It’s the glamour and the showiness of Diana Ross; the ferociousness and pain of Tina Turner; and the vocals of Alanis.
But my brother Joey was there, and my sister Tina Nina Minnelli was there.
I love ’30 Rock’ because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.
I love a lot of the ’70s singers: Pam Grier from the ‘Foxy Brown’ movie, Diana Ross, Tina Turner. They’ve always been able to embrace their hair, and they’ve never been afraid to take risks and go all out and make it thick and fun and a statement at the same time.
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 don’t think there’d be a Tina Fey now if I hadn’t tried to look good in the beginning.
My dream would be to be like Tina Weymouth from Talking Heads. Her style and everything about her, she’s just the coolest human being.
When actors have the opportunity to play a larger-than-life icon – my wife did it with Tina Turner, and Jamie Foxx did it with Ray Charles – you have to make a decision how you go in. What do you start with? Where do you begin?
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