Kay Cannon Quotes
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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 feel like the guilds are, just to be frank, people I pay money to.
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I was the runt of the family, the shortest and the smallest, so I think they perceived me as the one who was like, 'Look at me!' - just trying to get their attention and being a goofball.
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'Pitch Perfect' was my first screenplay, so it was like my little baby.
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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 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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When I was younger, I wanted my hair to look like Molly Ringwald's.
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You just tell a good story where you're funny and it makes people laugh.
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I wake up around seven, and I give my daughter breakfast. I spend the first hour or two of her day with her.
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I would be writing while I was breastfeeding. I didn't want the computer to be too close to her, so it was at an arm's distance away while I was clickety-clack typing away.
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I was crazy poor, but I was learning and putting myself out there and getting hired to do whatever gig I could and auditioning.
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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 started writing because I wasn't getting things as an actor.
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Writers who sit down and write might judge what they're putting down, but I always just try to barf it out. I'm writing crap, but I'll put it down.
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I wasn't, like, pretty enough to be the ingenue; I wasn't 'character' enough to be the goofball sidekick. I'm kind of ethnically ambiguous.
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I'm actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago.
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On '30 Rock,' the hours were really intense, and I was often on set. I'm glad I didn't have a kid then because I don't think I would have ever seen her. I would work 15-hour days, and weekends, too.
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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.
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Tina Fey is my mentor, whether she likes it or not.
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I've got to literally write my own ticket.
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We're big 'Game of Thrones' fans, so we call our house King's Landing. I have a studio apartment above our garage that we call Winterfell. I go to Winterfell to write.
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I've seen 'Bring It On,' like, a thousand times.
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I ran track in college. And that team, that all-lady team that I was on, I can remember just being so incredibly sad that I knew we were all going to leave each other after we graduated and that our lives would change. And even though I was the bridesmaid at all their weddings and stuff like that, it's just not the same, right?
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I didn't set out to write some female-empowering movie; I just wanted to write a funny college comedy.