Tina Fey Quotes

I grew up with the idealistic notion that writing and literature were noble causes. I had no inkling, no sense of what I would eventually encounter in terms of people who weren't being sincere. I'm not saying that it happens always or a lot, but it happens enough that sometimes it makes me feel a little queasy.

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

When you're pretending to be something you're not, at least for me, you end up falling on your face.

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.

Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.

It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false

Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

I am myself a fabulous fake.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.

I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

I didn't want to write another book about fraudulence.

Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

As soon as you start claiming you can be someone that you are not, you are crazy.

But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.

I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful but it is always coming out when you least expect it. In contrast to the pious language of the faithful, the liturgy is beautifully flat.