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Kay Cannon Quotes

I started writing because I wasn’t getting things as an actor.

– Kay Cannon

I’m actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago.

– Kay Cannon

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.

– Kay Cannon

When I was younger, I wanted my hair to look like Molly Ringwald’s.

– Kay Cannon

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?

– Kay Cannon

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

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.

– Kay Cannon

You just tell a good story where you’re funny and it makes people laugh.

– Kay Cannon

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

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.

– Kay Cannon

I was working at ‘New Girl’ when I found out there was going to be a ‘Pitch’ sequel.

– Kay Cannon

I played volleyball and basketball, and I did track and volleyball in college.

– Kay Cannon

‘Pitch Perfect’ was my first screenplay, so it was like my little baby.

– Kay Cannon

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.

– Kay Cannon

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.

– Kay Cannon

I have to say, my husband is a big Patriots fan. Like, a huge Patriots fan.

– Kay Cannon

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.

– Kay Cannon

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

You never imagine that the Green Bay Packers were going to be in something you wrote or singing ‘Bootylicious.’

– Kay Cannon

‘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.

– Kay Cannon

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.

– Kay Cannon

I’ve got to literally write my own ticket.

– Kay Cannon

I was like, ‘I have to start writing for myself, to show people what I can do and what my point of view is.’

– Kay Cannon

I didn’t set out to write some female-empowering movie; I just wanted to write a funny college comedy.

– Kay Cannon

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.

– Kay Cannon

I was a writer on ’30 Rock’ for six years.

– Kay Cannon