Jenny Slate Quotes

There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist

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.

I'd like to be in a tiny indie where I'm lost at sea.

I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.

I just want to work hard. I love that feeling.

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.

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.

Although I do stand-up - doing actual stage work is terrifying for me.

I've only been acting since 2009 and I learn more and more with each job. I think I prepare and I'm very focused and I have a good work ethic that I learned in school.

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.

I'm competitive and I have a messy purse, but otherwise, I like people to think I'm a winner.

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.

I'm sure that if I had a partner and that partner cheated on me, that I would be devastated if we were in a committed, monogamous relationship. So of course, it's a devastating thing.

Infidelity is not freedom. It's a momentary respite from stressors that are going to come back.

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

I am a comedian and I started in stand-up when I was 22.

I really like working. I can't think of a job I didn't like.

I have no regrets. The best thing to happen to me was for Lorne Michaels to hire me and fire me.

Not often is there as much of a vulnerable side as there is a funny side.

I feel a lot of life in me and a lot of creative energy and I think it's better suited somewhere it can run free.

When I go and make smaller films, I actually never think about them being made for a smaller audience.

TV can be fairly rigid. I've done enough Network TV to know that it's fun but if I have to go somewhere every day maybe it's not the most satisfying [job].

I want to keep growing and I want to be an actress for as long as I can.

I'd like to do a little bit of everything. I think the only thing I can't do is a British accent, so that's out. No Shakespeare for me. Unless it's like one of those modern-day remakes.

I feel like when I go on stage I feel so excited at the prospect that there will be a true connection.

I don't make a lot of mistakes, honestly. I'm an A-student, I'm an Ivy Leaguer. I need those things.

At the beginning of my career, fresh out of college, I did everything that I could do. And now I'm a little bit more selective. I think that's sort of a natural process.

If you don't respect each other and let it lie, it can be embarrassing or really frustrating.

I know that I don't like being teased.

I'm not one to wallow, but I am one to feel the sting of a slap for a while, I think.

When I would go on stage I would start to feel that the eyes that watching me weren't kind. And it took me a while to realize that those eyes were my own eyes.

If you're in a good marriage, you have the sense that it won't be forever.

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.

I just want to be able to do something that's interesting to me.

I just left wishing that it was longer because I enjoyed it so thoroughly.

I don't like feeling hemmed in and I don't like feeling that I'm repeating myself.

If you make a careless choice, you can really ruin things and it can take awhile for them to repair.

There are so many things I'd like to do. I'd really like to be in a period piece that takes place in old New York or old Hollywood and wear those costumes and that makeup.

I just want to be able to be creative.

I want to make every kind of movie that I can make. I don't really care if they're big or small.

A lot of times what's satisfying to me in comedy is when a woman successfully does self-care.

There's a part of me that would love to be in an action movie where I get to run around and punch people in the face and, whatever, be a murderer, I don't care!

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.

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.

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.

'Saturday Night Live' will always be this amazing, powerful behemoth, but it's also not the only thing happening in comedy anymore.

If I'm going to have baked goods in the morning, the rule is that I have to make them myself.

I love waking up in the morning. It makes me feel really excited.