Kay Cannon Quotes
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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 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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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 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 a huge fan of Ace of Base. 'The Sign?' I love that song.
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I feel like the guilds are, just to be frank, people I pay money to.
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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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'Pitch Perfect' was my first screenplay, so it was like my little baby.
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I've got to literally write my own ticket.
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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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Everything that makes us who we are is A-O.K.
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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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You just tell a good story where you're funny and it makes people laugh.
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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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I love that feeling, that feeling of team.
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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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I was crazy poor, but I was learning and putting myself out there and getting hired to do whatever gig I could and auditioning.