Jenny Slate

Actress

97 Quotes

I think, in general, finding the right time to have a baby is pretty scary.

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

I couldn't wait to be an adult woman, and I'm glad I felt that way as a kid because, when I grew up, I realised I live in a world where the female form is really disrespected, and society is often trying to wrestle the female form into a shape that looks more like a young boy.

You are not waiting for your life to start. It's going on right now.

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.

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

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.

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

I don't like taking physical risks at all. I take a lot of emotional risks, and I don't feel like I need to get on a bike or a horse or jump off of anything ever.

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

I love waking up in the morning. It makes me feel really excited.

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.

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.

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

I feel nervous when the script is set in stone, and I feel nervous when I feel the script is written for mass consumption because I don't see myself that way.

I always loved to sing and was very, very loud. I wanted to be a movie star, like Judy Garland.

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.

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

For some reason, I never watched Lifetime but just discovered it. I was like, 'Oh, it's all rom-coms!'

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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