Jenny Slate Quotes

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Jenny Slate

Profession : Actress

Birth : March 25, 1982

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

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

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I grew up idolizing Madeline Kahn and Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett, Ruth Gordon, Rosalind Russell, Amy Irving, women who were stylish and real actresses who did real work and could not be replaced with anyone else. You cannot cast anyone else in Madeline Kahn's roles.

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

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I think that there have been a lot of fear-based assertions that feminism is about aggression, and that is incorrect and untrue. Feminism is about equality; that's what it's about.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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I just want to be able to be creative.

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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.

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

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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.

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I think that, unfortunately, people who are maybe threatened by feminism think that it's about setting your bra on fire and being aggressive, and I think that's really wrong and really dangerous.

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

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

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

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

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