Alex Borstein Quotes

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Alex Borstein

Profession : Actress

Birth : February 15, 1971

Amy Sherman-Palladino is very funny. She's got just natural timing and comedic instinct. And she writes in a comedic rhythm.

Alex Borstein

I'm terrible at learning lines. I'm good at learning lines when I don't have to be word-perfect.

Alex Borstein

My rhetoric degree ended up being very helpful in advertising. I got an internship and then figured I will be a copywriter; that will be my path.

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As an actor, you create your own ideas.

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Animation is very similar to sketch comedy: you have a short amount of time to do something big and ridiculous and funny.

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My uncle is a hemophiliac, and my brother is one as well. I am a carrier, and it's a disease that my kids also deal with. It's something that has affected my family and I for so long, and I think it's actually what drove me to comedy as a means to cope during tough times.

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Losing my grandmother was one of the hardest things I ever had to go through.

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I don't want pictures of my kids anywhere. I don't tweet pictures of my kids. I don't put them on any social media. I definitely do like to keep some privacy that way. And mostly, it's fear-based; people are crazy.

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Stand-up's hard. It's one of the hardest things in the world, and it's really lonely.

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I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.

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I was kind of the comic relief in my household. We had a chronic illness in the family. And so, a lot of emergency room visits, and my role was to be silly and add levity, and we're Jewish. So every Passover is a performance. You kind of learn to role play and do voices at the Passover Seder.

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