30 Rock returns to TV tonight, bringing back our one of our favourite female comedians to our living room on a weekly basis. From her hilarious autobiography Bossybants to her spot-on Sarah Palin impressions and knack for self-deprecating humour, Tina Fey’s comedy style gives us a better ab work out than any workout DVD ever could. Here are some of our favourite Tina Fey quotes to get you ready for the triumphant TV return of Liz Lemon.
“There are a couple of things I want to impart to ladies who want to be in comedy: One, you don’t have to be weird or be quirky to get your job done. And two, comedy skill is not sexually transmittable. You do not have to sleep with a comedian to learn what you’re doing. Male comedians will not like that advice, but it is the truth.”
“Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am all about money. I mean, just look how well my line of zodiac-inspired toe rings and homeopathic children’s medications are selling on Home Shopping Network.”
“How do you juggle it all?’ people constantly ask me, with an accusatory look in their eyes. ‘You’re screwing it all up, aren’t you?’ their eyes say. My standard answer is that I have the same struggle as any working parent but with the good fortune to be working at my dream job. Or sometimes I just hand them a juicy red apple I’ve poisoned in my working-mother witch cauldron and fly away.”
“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.”
“I had to get back to work. NBC has me under contract. The baby and I only have a verbal agreement.”
“Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady and push him down the stairs. To make a comedy writer laugh, you have to push a real old lady down the stairs. I don’t know who that’s attributed to. I think it’s Aristophanes. Or Catherine the Great.”‘
“Lesson learned? When people say, “You really, really must” do something, it means you don’t really have to. No one ever says, “You really, really must deliver the baby during labor.” When it’s true, it doesn’t need to be said.”
“My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.”
“I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our society…unless I need it, in which case, everybody be cool.”
“To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.”
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