Kay Cannon Quotes
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People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.
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When I finished grad school, I moved to Chicago proper, and I was at all the different improv schools, taking classes or interning.
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Even if I wrote 'The Kay Cannon Show,' I would have to audition to play Kay Cannon. And I probably wouldn't get it.
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Society has this deeply rooted love of seeing women fail.
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I was working at 'New Girl' when I found out there was going to be a 'Pitch' sequel.
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No one ever actually said they were resistant because 'Pitch Perfect' was female-centric. When a project is sitting there for a while, you start to speculate about what could be the thing that might be a little tricky about it.
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Second City Las Vegas is very different from Second City in Chicago on the main stage, where they do improv sets. That's how they kind of hone material, kind of work up to new material.
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I was a writer on '30 Rock' for six years.
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I saturated myself with the improv community.
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I have to say, my husband is a big Patriots fan. Like, a huge Patriots fan.
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I loved all the people involved with '30 Rock.'
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I like it when adult straight men are big fans of 'Pitch Perfect!'
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'Bridesmaids,' I think, opened up a door to allow women to show a bunch of different women in different ways of being funny. It was kind of like an arrival moment.
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I played volleyball and basketball, and I did track and volleyball in college.
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I was in relays for track where you just bonded with all these different kinds of personalities who were coming together for this one common goal of beating a rival team.
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I started writing for myself because I know how to write for myself. I know how to show what I can do.
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I took a class at The Second City, and it became contagious.
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When I was in college, I started an improv group, and I did a bunch of plays and some musicals. I have a theater degree. I'm a school person: I like getting homework and having deadlines. When I graduated, I worked right away as an actor.
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I started writing when I was trying to be an actor, and I happened to be friends with Tina Fey, who happened to have her show '30 Rock' coming out. So Tina, who happens to be a mentor to me, gave me my slot and hired me.
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Tell your daughters and their daughters that if they want to be a firewoman, they can be a firewoman. If they want to be an astronaut, they can be an astronaut. If they want to run their own business or run for president, they can do whatever they put their mind to.
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I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing.
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'Hot Pursuit,' 'Pitch Perfect 2,' 'Trainwreck,' and 'Spy' were all being done in the last year. All four of those movies I just mentioned are not rom-coms: they're all about women doing different things.
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I was like, 'I have to start writing for myself, to show people what I can do and what my point of view is.'
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I was auditioning a lot in L.A., and I was actually getting called back a lot for sitcoms. But I wasn't getting jobs. I even tested for 'Saturday Night Live' and didn't get that.