Jenny Slate famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Jenny Slate

#Differences #People #Together
There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist
-- Jenny Slate

#Different #Stories
I donâ€™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.
-- Jenny Slate

#Men #Thinking
I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.
-- Jenny Slate

#People #Want #Performers
I just want to be able to be creative.
-- Jenny Slate

#Creative #Want #Able
I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.
-- Jenny Slate

#Workaholic #Function #Wells
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.
-- Jenny Slate

#Party #Home #Feel Good
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.
-- Jenny Slate

#Tv Shows #Important #Different
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 Slate

#Thinking #Style #Comedic
Infidelity is not freedom. It's a momentary respite from stressors that are going to come back.
-- Jenny Slate

#Infidelity
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 Slate

#Mean #Thinking #Trying
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 Slate

#People #Lines #Performances
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 Slate

#Laughter #Fun #Dad
I just want to work hard. I love that feeling.
-- Jenny Slate

#Hard Work #Feelings #Want
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 Slate

#Mad #Goal #Ass
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 Slate

#Taken #Self #People
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 Slate

#Self #Focus #Doubt
I'm competitive and I have a messy purse, but otherwise, I like people to think I'm a winner.
-- Jenny Slate

#Thinking #People #Purses
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 Slate

#Amy #Lilies #Ruth
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.
-- Jenny Slate

#Men #Thinking #Can Do
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 Slate

#Comedian #Watches #Want
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 Slate

#Sensitive Person #People #Joy
I just want to be able to do something that's interesting to me.
-- Jenny Slate

#Interesting #Want #Able
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 Slate

#Running #Stars #People
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 Slate

#Character #Play #Voice
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 Slate

#Thinking #Tasks #Done
I just left wishing that it was longer because I enjoyed it so thoroughly.
-- Jenny Slate

#Wish #Enjoyed #Left
I don't like feeling hemmed in and I don't like feeling that I'm repeating myself.
-- Jenny Slate

#Feelings

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