Tina Fey Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you're asking actors to do. Learning other skills will help you communicate with people and respect what they do.

  Tina Fey

  Class, Skills, People

  "Funny girl". www.seventeen.com. January 24, 2008.

• An acting teacher once told me, 'Greet everything with yes... Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move forward.'

  Tina Fey

  Teacher, Motivation, Moving

• I went through a phase where I was sick of acting, I didn't want to do it anymore, I was bored with it and then I tried directing a movie and I was like: "Shoot, get back over there!" It made me appreciate acting more.

  Tina Fey

  Bored, Appreciate, Sick

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I definitely think of myself still as a writer first, and feel like - with the lucky exception of this - any acting opportunity I've gotten is usually because I was writing on it. This is like a wonderful vacation. If you've ever sat in a writers' room it's the most disgusting, tortuous place, so it's a treat to be treated like a movie actor.

  Tina Fey

  Writing, Opportunity, Thinking

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.

  Tina Fey

  Men, Halfway There, Play

• You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come to see you, and so they kind of know what they're in for. In television, you are sort of sneaking into people's homes. So, I think you can be a little bit darker on stage.

  Tina Fey

  Home, Thinking, People

• My problem with the traditional acting method was that I never understood what you were supposed to be thinking about when you're onstage.

  Tina Fey

  Thinking, Acting, Problem

  The BELIEVER Magazine Interview, www.believermag.com. November, 2003.

• Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying.

  Tina Fey

  Acting, Showing Up, Feels

  "Tina Fey on Top". Interview with Amy Poehler, www.marieclaire.com. April 09, 2008.

• The upsides of acting in things is mostly getting your hair done and having people give you clothes. So as long as you can have a little bit of that in your life, then it's just as delightful to be behind camera.

  Tina Fey

  Hair, Clothes, Long

  "Guff Interview: Tina Fey on Kimmy Schmidt and Cussing". Interview with Fred Topeд, guff.com. March 6, 2015.

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