Jenny Slate Quotes

I don't like feeling hemmed in and I don't like feeling that I'm repeating myself.

Being on "SNL" was a goal that I had when I was younger. When I got fired, I just felt really mad and I felt really grossed out by the system and grossed out by myself and it just sort of knocked me on my ass.

I am a comedian and I started in stand-up when I was 22.

I don’t think men have time to be funny because they have to make all of our rules about what we can do with our vaginas.

I've never thought of myself as the person that would happen to. There are a few blogs that I read, but I stay off of the Internet for the most part. I really like to just stay in the normal world, the real world.

There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist

I just want to be able to be creative.

I play a lot of characters where I don't even speak in my own voice. I learned about focus and I learned to trust that things can work when they're not heightened and that it's interesting when things are pared down.

I always just wanted to be a movie actress, like Lily Tomlin or Ruth Gordon. I just imagined myself being in a movie, wearing stylish women's clothing the way I saw Amy Irving wearing it.