Kay Cannon Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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 feel like the guilds are, just to be frank, people I pay money to.
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I'm a huge fan of Ace of Base. 'The Sign?' I love that song.
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I started writing because I wasn't getting things as an actor.
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I'm actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago.
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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 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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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've got to literally write my own ticket.
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Everything that makes us who we are is A-O.K.
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When I was younger, I wanted my hair to look like Molly Ringwald's.
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'Pitch Perfect' was my first screenplay, so it was like my little baby.
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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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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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There's still only maybe three female writers or two female writers to 10 guys in any kind of writer's room.
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You just tell a good story where you're funny and it makes people laugh.
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Tina Fey is my mentor, whether she likes it or not.
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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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I didn't set out to write some female-empowering movie; I just wanted to write a funny college comedy.
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It's interesting: when you're kind of 'known' for being a writer, people don't think you've done anything else.