In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

— Tina Fey

I think part of picking where you live in New York is accepting who you are. Really looking at yourself and going, 'Yeah, I'm not cool enough for the West Village.'

— Tina Fey

I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep.

— Tina Fey

It is a testament to my parents that they never reacted negatively to the four-year-long pride parade that marched through their house.

— Tina Fey

It's a great lesson about not being too precious about your writing. 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. You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it... You have to let people see what you wrote.

— Tina Fey

It’s a great lesson about not being too precious about your writing. 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. You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it… You have to let people see what you wrote.

— Tina Fey

It's one thing to be a wisecracking precocious teen hanging out with twenty-seven-year-olds. It's another thing to get in the way of a grown man trying to get laid.

— Tina Fey

It was a major and deeply embarrassing teenage revelation. It must be how straight teenage boys feel when they realize those boobs they like have heads attached to them.

— Tina Fey

I was a little excited but mostly loft. "Loft" 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 loft every day for the past seven years.

— Tina Fey

I was walking home alone from school, and I was wearing a dress. A dude drove by and yelled, "Nice tits." Embarrassed and enraged, I screamed after him, "Suck my dick.

— Tina Fey