Kay Cannon Quotes
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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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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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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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'Pitch Perfect' was my first screenplay, so it was like my little baby.
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I started writing because I wasn't getting things as an actor.
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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'm a huge fan of Ace of Base. 'The Sign?' I love that song.
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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'm actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago.
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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 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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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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You just tell a good story where you're funny and it makes people laugh.
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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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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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Tina Fey is my mentor, whether she likes it or not.
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When I was younger, I wanted my hair to look like Molly Ringwald's.
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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 love that feeling, that feeling of team.
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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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It's interesting: when you're kind of 'known' for being a writer, people don't think you've done anything else.
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Everything that makes us who we are is A-O.K.