Alex Borstein Quotes

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Alex Borstein

Profession : Actress

Birth : February 15, 1971

If you believe in romance, and if you believe in marriage, you also have to believe in divorce. It's like, with 'Getting On,' a lot of people say, 'I don't want to watch that. It's so dark.' But you can't just want to go to weddings and children's birthday parties. You've got to witness it all.

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Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.

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I love the freedom of voice-over and the ability to play multiple characters I could never play in real life: a hot young woman, a little boy.

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I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear for accents.

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I still get very uncomfortable and flushed on the street if somebody recognizes me or stops me. I don't know what to say. It's uncomfortable and strange.

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I always loved performing, but my parents were very practical, middle-class Jewish people.

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When I was doing stand-up, there were a lot of things I talked about that seemed very silly but were therapeutic.

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Being an outsider helps breed comedy.

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People who have picture-perfect upbringings and lives tend not to be funny. I don't think they write from a position of pain.

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Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing... You're really trying to emulate them, then you realize, 'I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.'

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I've always felt like an outsider as a woman. I've never really felt wholly comfortable in a women's world or woman's things. I've never been conventionally pretty or thin or girly-girl. Never felt dateable. All I've seen on TV has never felt like mine.

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'Getting On' - that show, it broke my heart. It really was like the greatest love of my life. I'm forever changed by it.

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I never became a road comic.

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I've spent most of my life writing and developing everything that I've wanted to be in - which is why I started writing in the first place.

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I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.

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Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.

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I got my degree in rhetoric.

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The hardest thing in the world to depict dramatically is stand-up.

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'Getting On' is just the coolest experience ever, and working with people like Laurie Metcalf, that's the joy. That's what I love about it.

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I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far.'

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