Tina Fey

If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: who cares?

I am a big Jeff Richmond fan.

Yeah, I do also think that by the time you are in your forties, what you want to wear and what you think is sexy is not always, like, for another person. It’s what makes you feel good…. Sexy is all relative.

Researches reported that they developed a ‘self-healing’ plastic that repairs itself if cracked. The plastic will change the way airplanes are built and medicine is practiced. In a related story, Joan Rivers will never die.

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.’

The show doesn’t go on because it’s ready; it goes on because it’s 11:30.

I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything I did, I don’t know why. I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest when I was about 13, and I dressed like him. I tried to do his accent. I did everything like him. I think it’s kind of stuck with me.

I think London’s sexy because it’s so full of eccentrics.

Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!”

Working with someone like Dustin Hoffman is a huge honor and, after you kind of get through that, you’re frightened about working with a screen legend, and I was just in awe.

I’m one of those people who doesn’t follow trends. I set them.

Guys act strange around me. I swear I don’t know why!

I just asked her to support me in this one thing. It’s not a big lie. She should have understood that I was just trying to sell the song to America’s premier songstress.

[On struggling to be taken seriously in the industry] Even now, people want to marginalize me. They want to attribute all my success to teenagers seeing my movies. I really resent it when people say, “It’s just a genre film; it’s a teen comedy.” It takes a lot of work to make these things have heart and resonance so they’re not just empty, disposable confections. But I don’t give a damn about other people’s perceptions, because I’ll show them. For women in this business, ascendancy is always a battle. It’s scrape and claw. I just try to stick to my guns and respect myself. I want to take the ingenues aside and say, “Value yourself! It’s O.K. if you have opinions!

I have to say, I’m really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date.

Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.

My younger sister and I had the same modeling agency.

To me YES, AND means don’t be afraid to contribute. Always make sure you’re adding something to the discussion. Your initiations are worthwhile.

I have my moments – usually twice every album – when I basically lose it.

I certainly didn’t want to date. I was through with guys.

I’m a bit of a P.T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.