Jenny Slate Quotes

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Jenny Slate

Profession : Actress

Birth : March 25, 1982

Back at high school, there was this quarterback who asks me out. He's never paid attention to me before, but now we're on this date, going to see the 'Sixth Sense.' And right before the climax, he leans in - and I'm so excited, because I think we're going to French-kiss - and then he tells me the twist. He completely ruins the movie for me.

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

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

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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.

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

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It looks like I'm just gonna keep getting really, really happy and sad and embarrassed and excited and disappointed for the rest of my life, so let's just do that.

Jenny Slate

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

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I have things I say over and over again, for sure, but I've never wanted to make an album or really go on the road. I don't want any traction. I just want to be able to express myself and to feel love.

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I think, from a really early age, I just wanted to be an actress. And I ended up doing comedy because it was the thing that kind of, like, came out of my nature the most easily. But, I've always wanted to do as many different kinds of performances - whatever I could.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Jenny Slate

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.

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I think I was aware when I started doing stand-up, especially on my own, that, yeah, I'm getting up on stage, and I'm a woman, and I dress in a sort of typically feminine fashion.

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I like to wear dresses and skirts when I go onstage because the attitude that I have is, 'I'm so excited to introduce myself to you.' And I want to be wearing what I'd be wearing to a date or a dinner party.

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I had some friends that went to this hypnotist to stop smoking, and I kind of love things that seem magical. And I liked that it was in Santa Monica, and I had to go near the ocean to get my brain washed out or whatever. So I went there. And I went on a Thursday, and I got hypnotized.

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'Obvious Child,' the short, had a nice life online and a great festival run, but the short and the feature still stand apart from everything else I've done. I play a woman who you might meet in life. My other work is much more heightened.

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

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

Jenny Slate

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.

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