Jenny Slate quotes
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“You have to be really careful to watch out for the difference between banding together, and being grouped together by people who don't understand you.”
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“There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist”
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“I don’t think men have time to be funny because they have to make all of our rules about what we can do with our vaginas.”
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“I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.”
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“I just want to be able to be creative.”
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“I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.”
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“I really like to cook and have dinner parties and I like to clean, it really clears my head and it makes me feel good to keep my home as a comfortable place.”
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“There's a lot of different parts to me, so it makes total sense to me that I would do a big TV show or studio movie and then do a free comedy show the next day. They both feel equally important to me.”
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“I think my comedic style is at once bashful and explosive. It's a little bit perverted, and a little bit ladylike and old-fashioned, which is a great mix. Sort of tangy.”
-- Jenny SlateSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Infidelity is not freedom. It's a momentary respite from stressors that are going to come back.”
-- Jenny SlateSource : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
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“I don't try to do anything. I think the moment that I'm like, "Oh, I have to be this way or that way" is the moment that I become sad, or maybe an asshole. So I just try to be myself and put out what is most natural. But I think I am - I mean, I've seen a lot, been through a lot. But something remains sort of naïve within me. And I just try to nurture that.”
-- Jenny SlateSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Don't be snarky, but don't be saccharine. Don't pander, but don't shut people out. Go straight down the line with the performance.”
-- Jenny SlateSource : Source: www.esquire.com
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“I think the main thing that affected my comedy was that my dad slept in a nightgown for most of my childhood. And it was just very funny every single night and made me realize that laughter is fun and nightgowns are cool.”
-- Jenny SlateSource : "Not My Job: Comedian Jenny Slate Gets Quizzed On Jennifer Lopez". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. December 20, 2014.
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“I just want to work hard. I love that feeling.”
-- Jenny SlateSource : "Jenny Slate and Nick Kroll Q&A: ‘My Blind Brother’ Stars Dig Deep On Complicated Characters You Can’t Help But Root For". Interview with Steve Greene, www.indiewire.com. September 23, 2016.
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“Being on "SNL" was a goal that I had when I was younger. When I got fired, I just felt really mad and I felt really grossed out by the system and grossed out by myself and it just sort of knocked me on my ass.”
-- Jenny SlateSource : "Jenny Slate, Gabe Liedman and Richard Kind on stand-up, improv and Jerry Seinfeld". Interview with Prachi Gupta, www.salon.com. January 19, 2014.
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“There was a while when I got really bad stage fright and I basically felt...I was incredibly angry. I felt like everything had been taken away from me and it was at that point that I realized how much doing stand up reminds me of my self love and curiosity about myself and love of other people because I don't go on stage to dominate.”
-- Jenny SlateSource : "Jenny Slate, Gabe Liedman and Richard Kind on stand-up, improv and Jerry Seinfeld". Interview with Prachi Gupta, www.salon.com. January 19, 2014.
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“I learned that I was able to focus. I've always thought of myself as somebody who is like either it's there or it isn't there. I really worked at this, and I focused, and I was able to replace self-doubt with focus. That was something new for me to say self-doubt is there, but it does not need to be in the front row. You can ask it to take a back seat and replace that front row seat with focus.”
-- Jenny SlateSource : Source: collider.com
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“I'm competitive and I have a messy purse, but otherwise, I like people to think I'm a winner.”
-- Jenny SlateSource : "Jenny Slate, Gabe Liedman and Richard Kind on stand-up, improv and Jerry Seinfeld". Interview with Prachi Gupta, www.salon.com. January 19, 2014.
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“I always just wanted to be a movie actress, like Lily Tomlin or Ruth Gordon. I just imagined myself being in a movie, wearing stylish women's clothing the way I saw Amy Irving wearing it.”
-- Jenny SlateSource : Source: www.esquire.com
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“I don’t think men have time to be funny because they have to make all of our rules about what we can do with our vaginas.”
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“Sometimes you watch comedians and feel like they're jerking off in front of you, but they want you to see how big it is.”
-- Jenny SlateSource : Source: www.salon.com
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“The thing that bubbles up the most when I'm around other people is that I feel a joy of being alive. But I also am a very sensitive person and have many heavier feelings. It can be tiresome after a while to only do comedy, especially after you grow as a person. It starts to feel like you're playing an older version of yourself.”
-- Jenny SlateSource : Source: www.esquire.com
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“I just want to be able to do something that's interesting to me.”
-- Jenny SlateSource : "Jenny Slate and Nick Kroll Q&A: ‘My Blind Brother’ Stars Dig Deep On Complicated Characters You Can’t Help But Root For". Interview with Steve Greene, www.indiewire.com. September 23, 2016.
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“I'd like to be in a female version of The Fugitive. Something where I don't have to be ripped up like an action star, but be a normal, healthy lady who is framed and on the run. I'd have to run from explosions and punch people in the face but not rappel down a building.”
-- Jenny SlateSource : Source: www.esquire.com
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“I play a lot of characters where I don't even speak in my own voice. I learned about focus and I learned to trust that things can work when they're not heightened and that it's interesting when things are pared down.”
-- Jenny SlateSource : Source: www.esquire.com
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“I think the reason I like making movies sometimes more than doing TV is that you have one task, you only have a certain amount of time to do it, and then it is done. And I really like focusing in that way.”
-- Jenny SlateSource : Source: www.esquire.com
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“I just left wishing that it was longer because I enjoyed it so thoroughly.”
-- Jenny SlateSource : Source: www.esquire.com
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“I don't like feeling hemmed in and I don't like feeling that I'm repeating myself.”
-- Jenny SlateSource : "Jenny Slate and Nick Kroll Q&A: ‘My Blind Brother’ Stars Dig Deep On Complicated Characters You Can’t Help But Root For". Interview with Steve Greene, www.indiewire.com. September 23, 2016.
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