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Tina Fey

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first: 2020-01-15
most recent: 2020-01-15
sittings or episodes: 1
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“And we went to that show like it was a midterm. I don't know what we thought you were going to give us a test. We took it so seriously. Oh my gosh. So you, you are my church.”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“From the Oprah Show. I went to a book club show once when I was living in Chicago with me, and probably Rachel Draghi, like a bunch of us, had read the book of Ruth was the book.”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I told her I would say yes to anything in the world that you ever ask me to do. And by the way, if you ask me what my spiritual beliefs are, the closest I come is my love of you since I was a child coming home from high school, I would come home every day. And make a jiffy pop and watch you every day and eat that whole jiffy pop. And I feel like there are so many things that I'd say all the time that I got from watching your show. I always say always be the only person who can sign your checks. I always say never go with someone to a second location, which... Actually, I used to say it so much as stuff like that in the room at 30rock that it became like a famous joke on 30 Rock with Carrie Fisher's character Jack Burnett wrote, like, never go with a hippie to a second location. And it's because I wouldn't shut up about things I learned.”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“By the way, that was just a chess move to prevent me from getting Gail to be my friend. That was relational aggression. I watch everything on Gail's Instagram. I lurk on Instagram. I watch Gail. But I also like to read stuff because I feel like it helps me remember that the world's been around a long time and will continue to be around. And so read things that were written a while ago and have a connection to things that are more permanent than the news cycle.”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I watched the morning a little bit. And then do you want to? I'm NBC forever. It's tricky. It's tricky. I watch NBC in the morning.”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and it's so hard to prioritize it for yourself, but you should try. I love going to sleep. It's my favorite part of the day. I drink some natural calm magnesium and I go to sleep. I'm finding that I really need to be outside every day, like I need to make time to go walk and be in nature or as close as I can get to nature in the city, go to the park. I'm trying to read more. I'm trying to read more for a couple reasons because I'm looking to reboot, but also I think I know my friends and I were all we're all very stressed by”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, you can't be. What do I do to be well? I eat well. I move around. I try to sleep now that I spent so many years sleep deprived. And that sleep deprivation is no joke. There's a reason they use it as torture.”
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“Now I would refer to myself as an Anne Lamotte Christian. Just read some Anne Lamotte, try to be a good person, try to impart. Ethics to my children. That's about”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, everything, the people I've gotten to meet, the people I've gotten to work with, being able to not, that I didn't run out of time to have children, being able to do what I love and have financial success in it, I have gratitude for. I know for sure I would be doing it anyway, even if I was still doing it in Chicago for free and working a day job. I know I would still be doing”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well I was a little confused of whether it was supposed to be a whole sentence. Are like how ethereal it should be, or if it should be like eat more carrots. But like I said, I think it's about listening and being present and listening to try to hear what I'm supposed to do next.”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We have known each other since 1992, 93, and we've been working together. And I think I love about our friendship, it is the work-based friendship. The only time, almost the only time we see each other is if we work on something together, which is probably why we're like, okay, we'll do the globes again. We're on our first improv team together. We toured for the second city together. did weekend update together and so that's my love language is working with people i work with my husband i you know um and so going in to do something like the globes and sitting there with a packet of jokes and going through it with her it's so natural and so easy because it's 25 30 years in practice”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, yeah, yeah, I think so. I think I learned from life mistakes, yeah. But even just in terms of like... I don't know, like taking a new, doing new things, trying new things. I think I'm a person who needs to be pulled because I was obsessed with comedy. It's what I always wanted to do. I dove into that. Now I feel like I know about that. And so I need to find what the next thing's going to be.”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, well, this actually ties to what I just said. Because the emotion and learning was one of the things I circled that I wanted to work on because I feel like I lack a curiosity. Like I should be more curious about things outside my realm.”
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“It's exciting me the most. I don't know. I'm dead inside, Oprah. I'm dead. It's exciting me the most. I like my house. I like being inside my house.”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I could play Nancy Pussy Marianne Williamson. You know, in improv, there's a whole thing when you're doing improv shows, which is where I came from, which are these scenes that everyone makes up together on stage. And there's a rule in improv is when do you enter a scene? If two people are doing a scene and when are you supposed to enter? And they ask in class, they say, like, when do you enter? And I'm like, oh, when I have a good idea, or when I think of something funny, and they're always like, no, the answer is you enter the scene when you are needed. That's when you enter. So I will not enter.”
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“Oh God, I'm thinking through them all. They're so beautiful. I know I can't, I don't think anybody, I mean, what's that? You got one? Rachel Dratch plays Amy Klobuchar and does an amazing job and looks just like her. Nancy Pelosi.”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm glad to not be. I think it's a tricky time to write about politics. It's tricky, tricky, tricky, because you are still obligated to make it funny. Can't just be mad. Had to be funny. But”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It just went to hell. And we ended up in a fight with each other. And I was like, maybe let's just be together and not try to plan it and not try to”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And now my little One if I go for 10 minutes, she'll be like, Where are you going? She has no idea how bad it could be. The other thing I'm trying to learn is to, as we all are, to be more present, to put the devices away, and to be with my family in a way and not be caught up in the idea of what it should be when we're together, when you work a lot. Working moms can tell you like you spend a fair amount of time at work being like, I'm going to go on Pinterest and look at like crafts. I'm going to make when I get home someday. Folders and folders of pinned crafts. And I had this thing where I was like, I'm going to take my eight-year-old to this part of Central Park, this special garden, and we're going to go and we're going to take drawing supplies and we're going to have a day. And I took her and she was like,”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I'm comfortable. I keep saying around the house, I'd be like, well, you know, I'm retired. And then my husband's like, you know you're not retired. I'm like, just let me say it. Yeah, I'm comfortable. I'm trying to read more. I'm trying to be present and enjoying my kids more than my second kid has no understanding of how hard my older daughter had it when you're shooting and you're like, I would say goodbye to her at five in the morning and come home at 9 at night. And, you know, that was terrible.”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I think I don't. I think I don't say yes when I mean no. Yeah, I think I'm cured. Cured. It was the vision tour. I don't think I do”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think I'm at an age where I'm trying to learn. I don't have to be so obedient. I'm a very obedient person, a very obedient child growing up. I'm a pleaser. I want to hear that I got an A. And I feel like you get to the age that and now I don't feel the need to please others as much.”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My goal now is I see old ladies in Manhattan bustling down the street and that's like my goal is like I want to be walking around town probably yelling at people When I'm 85”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, it's so true. Yeah, I think we say investments, like you should try being, in your life, try being a little heavy once, try being really, really skinny once. You can't stay there. You know, you get to the point where you're losing weight and you're like, man, it just becomes a game. Of, like, how much weight can I lose, and that you don't want to reside there. You want to live your life.”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I feel like being too beautiful, no, it's never been an issue. Never been a problem. But I think we've talked about this. I think it's interesting I've moved through my life in a couple different body shapes, and it's interesting to go from having been kind of like just like I said, just Chicago style, comfy, comedy person. And then I lost weight when I was like 27, 28, and people who I had definitely met before introduced themselves to me and treated me differently. And I felt like I was mature enough to be like, okay, thank you. Don't hit on me.”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I look just like my dad. I did that changing face change app. Yep, it's my nephew. I think it actually is very much a blessing that I think it's good to not be pretty as a teenager. You know what I mean? Why? Because I think if you're very attractive young person, the world treats you differently and expects different things of you, and you may not develop other aspects of yourself, and then you will eventually, unless you're Christy Brinkley, you will eventually lose that beauty. And then you don't know who the rest of yourself is”
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“Aggressors, yeah But now I feel like partly because of the internet and the anonymity of the internet and our climate and our culture that it's actually kind of metastasized this behavior of just like, I'm just going to throw a punch over here on someone's Instagram account or tweet something at someone and walk away. Wasn't that amazing? Wasn't it so badass how I said that terrible thing to that person who doesn't know who I am? In the core of the Mean Girls message of the show is this simple notion of like saying calling someone else ugly does not make you better looking calling someone else stupid does not make you any smarter and just trying to encourage people to walk away from that behavior. And so that was partly why it felt okay to me to like, oh yeah, I'll revisit this property or whatever because I feel like it's still a valid.”
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“Yeah. The story, I mean, the Mean Girls story, it came from this sociology book called Queen Bees and Wannabes, which we probably talked about a million years ago in the show. And it's about how to help girls navigate, they call it relational aggression. Now, I feel like it's called? It's called relational aggression.”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, I do think the more diverse the room, the better everything is because it's just, yeah, it's just truly better. Because you don't want to be a bunch of Caucasian people trying to guess what's okay for a Latino person. How about just have some Latino people in the room and come up with things together? And it just, yeah, it's like you wouldn't make a soup with one thing in it and expect it to be good soup.”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“All right, let's take a minute. Let's figure out how to make comedy without hurting anyone because we don't want to hurt anyone. How to make shows that are more inclusive and diverse.”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My honest answer as a comedian is sort of no. If you're a good enough comedian, and if it's true and you find the way to get at the truth of something, technically no, but it's also like you have to think of who you're speaking to. And I think what people are getting pushback is that people, again, because when you speak now, you're speaking to everyone in the whole world. And so you get more pushback of like, yeah, I can hear you and I didn't like that. And so it's harder to write jokes, but in theory. When you say, is there no topic? And I think in my mind I'm like, I don't think there's any topic that I wouldn't want to hear what Chris Rock had to say about it. I would feel safe in his thoughtfulness and his skills. I'd be like, what's your take on whatever? But I also think part of my reboot is as a person in comedy.”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I have my Saturday Live friends who now that's old friends, that's over 20 years ago. I have my old hometown summer theater friends. I have all my work friends. My friend Azy, who I used to work with, flew in from LA because of me. But Yes”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that's why I also would be remiss if I didn't mention my best friend from my home, growing up best friend, Marlene Kimball, who is very much that. She's a teacher in Pennsylvania, and we celebrate each other, and yet I never feel like, yeah, that she's like, well, I wish, oh, this weekend I might have blown it. I probably should have brought her this weekend.”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I didn't, and I, you know, all I knew was people thought I looked like her, and I was like, I don't even work there anymore, and I don't think people realize that. And I've joked and said that I felt like it was a prayer for Owen Meanie moment that was like everything in my life had been leading up to me, be able to do that. One thing I was thinking about that and about balance in general and the reason why I wasn't that scared was I think because other parts of my life were in balance I felt like if it goes terribly I'll just go home and my family's there”
2020-01-15 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah and Tina Fey: Your Life in Focus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In hindsight, now that that time in my life is over where I was like, we can do everything, we can go and we'll do the show and then I can remember a feeling that now I know was just cortisol, just spiking at all times. Like a tight chest, front and back and cortisol, because that show was a 30rock was a lot of... Challenging people. Challenging circumstances, and I think that there would be days where I'm like, I feel it eating my heart. Cortisol is burning away my heart. And so I don't feel that anymore. I have other shows now, but I'm not in them. And I feel that that's good.”
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“And we were in the dressing room, and I was looking at news tapes of Sarah Palin trying to sound like her. And Oprah said to me, like, I'm concerned for you. This might be too much. Allow us in Boston. When Oprah Winfrey tells you it might be too much. Sit down”
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“I think I weirdly was not. I was probably more nervous that you were there and that we needed to get stuff with you in the can. I did have an episode earlier in the morning that you were there where I started laughing uncontrollably and I had to shoot one little thing without you. And I started laughing uncontrollably at a very stupid joke where I was supposed to be asleep. And the guy next to me in the plane. And then I get woken up in my sleep. I say, no, grandma, no. And we never know why. And I had the giggles and they were like, I couldn't stop. And they were like, listen, Oprah's coming in like an hour. You got to pull it together. So I flapped it. I was like, okay, okay.”
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“I spent what was probably the apex, probably the craziest day of a crazy time in my life when we made the show 30 Rock, we worked 60 to 70 hours a week and Oprah had very, very kindly agreed to be on the show. So we were going to shoot film all day on the Saturday And also that it had come to pass in the days before that that Saturday night I was going to go place there Pale in the first time. For the first time, and then the next day was my daughter's third birthday party. And I was like, I'm going to make the cake. Everybody, here's one thing if you're a young mom, I will tell you they literally don't remember all the things, the birthday parties they don't remember. Don't start until they're like 10.”
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“Well, I think it depends on the kid. I think my older kid was like 12 and that was okay. My younger one, I want to say 38. She's trouble. She's trouble. But I think kids that young, they're like, we know, they get the whole thing of like, it's forever, it's for everyone. We don't get that. No. I think speaking extemporaneously is the most dangerous thing a person can do in 2020 is just like talk without a script. Because you got to get in trouble. You're in trouble. Somebody”
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“My older daughter has a phone. She's talking to her friends. Yeah, how do you protect them from what's so terrible out there? I think the kids growing up in school.”
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“I'm not on any public stuff. I love using technology to connect with people I actually know. You know, like I have a group of SNL lady friends that we, like it's like Amy Pohler, Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch on a guest, we talk every day, Paula Pell, and we talk a hundred times a day.”
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“In stages, and sometimes you hold a weight. This was with my, I have a 14-year-old and an eight-year-old. And I don't feel like an older mom. I had my eight-year-old when I was 41 when I delivered, but I feel I'm hanging in with her. But last night before I left, we were like goofing around at the table and she was joking like she was going to kick me like that. And I was joking with her and I turned sideways. I'm like, come on. And then she kicked me. And as soon as I did it, I was like, oh, wait a minute. And she kicked me and knocked me fully on my butt, took a shirt, and I was like, all right, your mom's 49. Come on. Come on now.”
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“But I just know it's there for me. I go in and out. Like, I know it's there when I need it, but no, I'm not tracking right this second. And all my exercise I'm finding now, like exercise used to be about like, I want to look cute or whatever. Now it's like, I took five or six years ago, I took an exercise class at a gym and they were like, okay, everyone to get down here. We're gonna do this. You need to be able to get up off the floor, ladies. And I was like, that's where it's at I need to be able to get off the floor. And now I do a thing called Turkish getups. Do you know what those are? No, what are they? And it's like a thing where you get up off the floor over and over again.”
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“He does most of the cooking in our house, and so it's good that he's on a health kick because now everyone's eating well and stuff and exercising.”
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“That's the reboot. That and my husband and I are both eating better. My husband, his back was bothering him and they told him to lose weight. And so in that very male way, he was like, okay, and lost 15 pounds. weeks and I was like”
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“Yeah, great. I agree The book is asking your intention and stuff, and I was like, you know, I feel like I am at an age where all the things I ever thought I wanted to do, I did them. I always wanted to work at Saturday Night Live. I wanted to have a TV show. I wanted to have children, you know, and so I feel like I'm kind of trying to be quiet and take things in, read, listen, and just am waiting for something inside me to tell me what the next thing is I want to do.”
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“Thank you. I feel okay. I feel fine. Yeah, I'm trying to make myself say I'm 49 and not be like, I'm 50 because I'm not yet.”
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“Well, it was interesting because I was doing the workbook on my way here and stuff on the plane and I'm 49. I'll be 50 next May.”
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“Well, one, I'm so psyched about. I'm like, I would like this to be how we repopulate the world. We go to an island, these women in the rock. Start society over. Just”
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“That's very kind of you to say yes. I'm always thrilled to meet somebody who says that they were inspired to become a writer or an actor or something because they saw me and Amy on SNL or they saw Thurdy Rock. I think it's great. A lot of times I can see them coming. Sometimes I see them coming. I'm like, you look exactly like me at 22. And yes, hello. It's always like a lady who looks glasses. It's like they look exactly like me. But yeah, I think it's great.”
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