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I've got to literally write my own ticket.
Kay Cannon / Film Writer
Ticket
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I saturated myself with the improv community.
Kay Cannon / Film Writer
Saturated
Improv
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I've seen 'Bring It On,' like, a thousand times.
Kay Cannon / Film Writer
Thousand
Thousand Times
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Tina Fey is my mentor, whether she likes it or not.
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Fey
Likes
She
Tina
Tina Fey
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Society has this deeply rooted love of seeing women fail.
Kay Cannon / Film Writer
Rooted
Love Women Society
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I took a class at The Second City, and it became contagious.
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Contagious
Second City
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I'm a huge fan of Ace of Base. 'The Sign?' I love that song.
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Huge
Song
Ace
Base
Fan
Huge Fan
Sign
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When I was younger, I wanted my hair to look like Molly Ringwald's.
Kay Cannon / Film Writer
Molly
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I feel like the guilds are, just to be frank, people I pay money to.
Kay Cannon / Film Writer
Frank
Money People Feel
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'Pitch Perfect' was my first screenplay, so it was like my little baby.
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Little Baby
Screenplay
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You just tell a good story where you're funny and it makes people laugh.
Kay Cannon / Film Writer
Good Story
Funny Good People
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I'm actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago.
Kay Cannon / Film Writer
Chicago
Small Town
About An Hour
Hour And A Half
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I have to say, my husband is a big Patriots fan. Like, a huge Patriots fan.
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Patriots
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I played volleyball and basketball, and I did track and volleyball in college.
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Volleyball
Track
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It's not about having luck; it's about putting yourself in a position of luck.
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Luck
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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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Sequel
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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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Depressed
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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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Point Of View
Show People
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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.
Kay Cannon / Film Writer
Daughter
Breakfast
Wake Up
Hour
Wake
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You never imagine that the Green Bay Packers were going to be in something you wrote or singing 'Bootylicious.'
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Green
Green Bay
Packers
Bay
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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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Audition
Cannon
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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.
Kay Cannon / Film Writer
Athlete
Long Hours
Sensibility
Work Long I Can
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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.
Kay Cannon / Film Writer
Auditioning
Gig
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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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Chicago
Grad
Grad School
Classes
Improv
Proper
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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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Ambiguous
Sidekick
Ingenue
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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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Manage
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'Bridesmaids,' I think, opened up a door to allow women to show a bunch of different women in different ways of being funny. It was kind of like an arrival moment.
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Being Funny
Bridesmaids
Different Ways
Arrival
Opened
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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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Garage
Landing
Above
Game Of Thrones
Studio
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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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Amy
Embarrassed
Fey
Thousand
Different Areas
Tina
Tina Fey
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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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Common Goal
Different Kinds
Track
Beating
Bonded
Personalities
Rival
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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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Distance
Typing
Arm
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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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Jobs
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Tested
Auditioning
Sitcoms
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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.
Kay Cannon / Film Writer
Chicago
Las Vegas
Second City
Vegas
Work City New
Hone
Improv
Main
Material
New Material
Sets
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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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Smallest
Goofball
Family Look Me
Perceived
Shortest
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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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Glad
Hours
Intense
Seen
Days
Often
Set
Her
Rock
Weekends
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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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Being Done
Different Things
Last Year
Pursuit
Spy
Pitch
Mentioned
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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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Cappella
Music Famous World
Improv
Improviser
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I didn't really feel like I fit any of the parts. You either have to be this crazy beautiful supermodel lady, or you're a real character actress. I felt like I had to write things for myself, so I started doing that.
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Beautiful
Crazy
Real
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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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Fey
Hired
Slot
Tina
Tina Fey
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On the set of 'Girlboss,' I had to keep introducing myself as the show runner - literally, 'Hi, I'm the boss' - to a lot of my crew. My first AD said, 'Why do you keep doing that?' I said, 'Because I get mistaken for an extra.'
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Crew
Introducing
Mistaken
Ad
Extra
Hi
Runner
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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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Tricky
Pitch
Resistant
Speculate
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It's not about having luck; it's about putting yourself in a position of luck. Meaning, get into a situation where you are with like-minded people who are just as passionate about something as you are, and then work really, really hard.
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Luck
Passionate
People
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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.
Kay Cannon / Film Writer
Bunch
Homework
Theater
Deadlines
Degree
Graduated
Group
Improv
Musicals
Plays
Right Away
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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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Daughter
Running
Astronaut
Mind
President
Business Your Mind
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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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Ran
Track
Graduated
Weddings
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