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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I was a writer on '30 Rock' for six years.
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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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Society has this deeply rooted love of seeing women fail.
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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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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 have to say, my husband is a big Patriots fan. Like, a huge Patriots fan.
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Ultimately, I want to direct a movie, so that's another thing, too, where I wonder what that will look like and how will I be able to manage.
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I felt that a cappella was the improv world with music, where it's very serious, and there are groups and competition, and some people become famous, and there's a language we speak from one improviser to another.
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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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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 like it when adult straight men are big fans of 'Pitch Perfect!'
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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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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 took a class at The Second City, and it became contagious.
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I saturated myself with the improv community.
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I loved all the people involved with '30 Rock.'
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I played volleyball and basketball, and I did track and volleyball in college.
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We have a lot of depressed people in the world because they don't know what their purpose is in life.
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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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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, they made it cool to be funny and to be embarrassed and to look a thousand different ways and show a bunch of different areas of their lives.
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I'm a huge fan of Ace of Base. 'The Sign?' I love that song.