Jenny Slate Quotes

I fidget and change my outfit a lot. It's really a way of keeping myself comfortable.

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

It's exciting to play someone who is a bit tougher than I am. I liked feeling those adjustments.

I think of my gender as a part of my complex humanity.

I spend so much time hoping things for myself.

Don't use a pick-up line.

Don't think twice. If it's a character that you feel compelled to play and story that you feel needs to be told, don't think twice.

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

I don't know exactly what's next. But I do know now that it's something rather than nothing.

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

Usually what is difficult for me are things that make me feel scared. That's when difficulties rather than challenges arise.

It makes a lot of sense to me that I would be a cartoon. I feel like a cartoon as a person. I really, really do.

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

I don't have any horror stories of trying to start as a comedian and eating it constantly on stage.

It was so quick for me on 'SNL.' It's not something I consider to be, like, one of the big spaces in my career.

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.

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

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.

Women love to be asked more about their clothes than their work. We're dolls; we made a wish to become alive.

The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.

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

I just really like it when things are earnest.

Comedy can be a little brutal, but not in a satisfying way.

For some reason, I never watched Lifetime but just discovered it. I was like, 'Oh, it's all rom-coms!'

I tend to watch things that aren't really the genre of my own work.

I've called myself an accidental activist because I came to it not on purpose.

My grandfather was a lot like a white Jewish George Jefferson, and he did not enjoy my work very much.

You are not waiting for your life to start. It's going on right now.

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

I think my friends would say I'm pretty goal-focused but whimsical.

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

I like any film where the female characters are complex and have a functioning imperfection.

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

If I'm not the best aunt in America, then I don't know what's going on.

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.

Using creative expression as a means to a professional end makes me curl up a bit.

I just want to be able to be creative.

A lot of people think that I'm one of the women from 'Broad City' - and I'm just not.

It's not good for me to see things while they're being edited. I can be highly critical, so I try to stay away.

There's not one type of stand-up, just like there's not one type of woman.

I waited my whole life to be a woman, so now my clothes are fairly tight.

People want to see comedies where characters aren't sacrificed for the jokes.

I always loved to sing and was very, very loud. I wanted to be a movie star, like Judy Garland.

I like dressing like I'm going on a date when I'm on stage.

You don't have to be in the brightest, shiniest state of being an individual to feel like you're exceptional.

I think, in general, finding the right time to have a baby is pretty scary.

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

You're always putting yourself into your work. There's no separation; it's just how you use yourself and transform.

I'm usually a fairly harsh critic. It depends. I tend to really not watch my work, because I just feel uncomfortable, and I can be highly critical.

I want to write a studio movie, but probably one that's for me to be in.

There is something to grace and deportment, but you determine that for yourself. That's something you own.

It's important to say women are complex.

I got great sex education, and I always knew that if I wanted to be sexually active, I had to have safe sex.

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.

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

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

That was something that I learned: It's actually okay if the way that I do my best is when I'm treated well.

I have a big thing about needing to know that I belong - in my group of friends, in my family, in my industry.

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.

I didn't hit puberty until I was, like, 17, so I love to talk about that.

I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be.

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

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

I think sometimes in comedy the characters are often sacrificed for the joke, and it's more important for it to be funny than for there to be love.

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.

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

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

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

I don't always feel comfortable being outwardly aggressive.

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

It takes a while to realize that just because you're a stand-up comedian and you do comedy, you're not going to be good at all comedy.

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.

A woman who is not ready to have a baby making it work is not a happy ending to me. It's a personal nightmare.

I learned my lesson early in my career that it's not helpful to go and look at what other people's opinions are.

I know sometimes my Twitter feed is intense, but I take it as a friendly void to scream into. I don't have another way to be.

We love rom-coms, but it's getting to where we don't identify with any of the women in them.

I do think that character types trend. As a female comedian, the parts that come my way are often terrible women.

I think it's important to not just speak to like-minded people.