Jenny Slate Quotes
You're always putting yourself into your work. There's no separation; it's just how you use yourself and transform.
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I like to wear dresses and skirts when I go onstage because the attitude that I have is, 'I'm so excited to introduce myself to you.' And I want to be wearing what I'd be wearing to a date or a dinner party.
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There's a whole thing now in the entertainment industry that's like, 'You need to write for yourself. Those are the people that are really valuable.' And it's just like, 'I don't want to! I just want to act!'
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I feel nervous when the script is set in stone, and I feel nervous when I feel the script is written for mass consumption because I don't see myself that way.
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It looks like I'm just gonna keep getting really, really happy and sad and embarrassed and excited and disappointed for the rest of my life, so let's just do that.
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I loved pretending to be a middle-aged Jewish woman. I just wanted to do what I saw Gilda Radner and Carol Burnett doing. But I'm not a particularly good impressionist. It was never my strong suit.
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I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be.
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I hope that the restaurant I go to will have buffalo chicken fingers. I hope that one day I can work with Matt Damon. I have big and little dreams, and they're all equally important to me. A life without buffalo chicken fingers, I don't know if I would want that life. Even if it meant I got to work with Matt Damon. Everything has its worth.
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I've called myself an accidental activist because I came to it not on purpose.
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I always thought that farts were funny, and I always thought that they were mine to talk about because they came out of my body.
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People say that the best part about doing animation is that you don't have to dress up to go to work, but I don't believe that. I dress up to go to work. I dress up for an airplane. I think it's just focusing your skillset, focusing on your voice and the comedy.
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I think, in general, finding the right time to have a baby is pretty scary.
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I tend to be really spacey, but I don't think it's because I'm unintelligent - it's just my imagination and a little bit of ADD.
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I always loved to sing and was very, very loud. I wanted to be a movie star, like Judy Garland.
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Using creative expression as a means to a professional end makes me curl up a bit.
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I really like working. I can't think of a job I didn't like. I was in an Alvin and the Chipmunks movie, which is not my idea of folk art; but I really enjoyed making it, and everyone was really nice.
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I was a teenager in '95, so I didn't dress like a woman then. I was really small. I remember wishing I wasn't wearing Gap Kids.
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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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Usually what is difficult for me are things that make me feel scared. That's when difficulties rather than challenges arise.
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The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.
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I have things I say over and over again, for sure, but I've never wanted to make an album or really go on the road. I don't want any traction. I just want to be able to express myself and to feel love.
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A lot of people think that I'm one of the women from 'Broad City' - and I'm just not.
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Women love to be asked more about their clothes than their work. We're dolls; we made a wish to become alive.
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'Saturday Night Live' will always be this amazing, powerful behemoth, but it's also not the only thing happening in comedy anymore.
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You're always putting yourself into your work. There's no separation; it's just how you use yourself and transform.