Tina Fey Inspirational Quotations

For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, 'Okay, that happened, and I did not die.' You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

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

So, my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism, or ageism, or lookism, or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: “Is this person in between me and what I want to do?” If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you’re in charge, don’t hire the people who were jerky to you.

You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math.

Life is improvisation.