Jenny Slate Quotes

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Jenny Slate

Profession : Actress

Birth : March 25, 1982

It's important to say women are complex.

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It's important to say that it's not just men that can be man-children. Women can be grown-up women and still have the playfulness of people who are younger.

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People say that the best part about doing animation is that you don't have to dress up to go to work, but I don't believe that. I dress up to go to work. I dress up for an airplane. I think it's just focusing your skillset, focusing on your voice and the comedy.

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

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I'm tired of someone being called 'quirky' because they tripped or got a stain on their shirt. It's like a beautiful blonde lady who's quirky because she has bedhead, or she's quirky because she sometimes says the wrong, cute thing. I like it when women are quirky as human beings.

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I've always wanted to play a normal woman, and I think I have been offered these parts where I play a kook because I'm not the idea of what a normal woman is.

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I spend so much time hoping things for myself.

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I hope that the restaurant I go to will have buffalo chicken fingers. I hope that one day I can work with Matt Damon. I have big and little dreams, and they're all equally important to me. A life without buffalo chicken fingers, I don't know if I would want that life. Even if it meant I got to work with Matt Damon. Everything has its worth.

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I don't always feel comfortable being outwardly aggressive.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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There's so much interference, so much static and people's voices talking about what you do and why you do it that I've learned to be like, 'No, no.' It's actually simple. I just do this.

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

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

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

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

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

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I never noticed my voice. I did become aware as a little kid at camp that I liked doing accents. We'd do plays and skits, and I realized I loved speaking in voices that weren't my own.

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