Latest Jenny Slate Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm sure that if I had a partner and that partner cheated on me, that I would be devastated if we were in a committed, monogamous relationship. So of course, it's a devastating thing.

  Jenny Slate

  Cheated, Committed, Devastated

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• Infidelity is not freedom. It's a momentary respite from stressors that are going to come back.

  Jenny Slate

  Infidelity

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• I don't want to grow a thick skin. Some people say, "Oh, you're an actress, you have to get used to criticism." But I don't accept that. I'll never get used to criticism, and I'll always care about whether or not people like my performances - because I'm an entertainer, and I want to please.

  Jenny Slate

  People, Skins, Criticism

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think my comedic style is at once bashful and explosive. It's a little bit perverted, and a little bit ladylike and old-fashioned, which is a great mix. Sort of tangy.

  Jenny Slate

  Thinking, Style, Comedic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't try to do anything. I think the moment that I'm like, "Oh, I have to be this way or that way" is the moment that I become sad, or maybe an asshole. So I just try to be myself and put out what is most natural. But I think I am - I mean, I've seen a lot, been through a lot. But something remains sort of naïve within me. And I just try to nurture that.

  Jenny Slate

  Mean, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Nowadays, performers who want to create their own material put it on the Internet. I never knew whether or not it would make an impression - and frankly, I didn't care that much about how it would be received.

  Jenny Slate

  Care, Internet, Impression

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If you don't respect each other and let it lie, it can be embarrassing or really frustrating.

  Jenny Slate

  Lying, Embarrassing, Frustrating

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I know that I don't like being teased.

  Jenny Slate

  Knows

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I think the reason I like making movies sometimes more than doing TV is that you have one task, you only have a certain amount of time to do it, and then it is done. And I really like focusing in that way.

  Jenny Slate

  Thinking, Tasks, Done

  Source: www.esquire.com

• The thing that bubbles up the most when I'm around other people is that I feel a joy of being alive. But I also am a very sensitive person and have many heavier feelings. It can be tiresome after a while to only do comedy, especially after you grow as a person. It starts to feel like you're playing an older version of yourself.

  Jenny Slate

  Sensitive Person, People, Joy

  Source: www.esquire.com

• Although I do stand-up - doing actual stage work is terrifying for me.

  Jenny Slate

  Stage

  Source: www.esquire.com

• Don't be snarky, but don't be saccharine. Don't pander, but don't shut people out. Go straight down the line with the performance.

  Jenny Slate

  People, Lines, Performances

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I'd like to be in a tiny indie where I'm lost at sea.

  Jenny Slate

  Sea, Tiny, Lost

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• I just want to be able to do something that's interesting to me.

  Jenny Slate

  Interesting, Want, Able

  "Jenny Slate and Nick Kroll Q&A: ‘My Blind Brother’ Stars Dig Deep On Complicated Characters You Can’t Help But Root For". Interview with Steve Greene, www.indiewire.com. September 23, 2016.

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

  Jenny Slate

  Feelings

  "Jenny Slate and Nick Kroll Q&A: ‘My Blind Brother’ Stars Dig Deep On Complicated Characters You Can’t Help But Root For". Interview with Steve Greene, www.indiewire.com. September 23, 2016.

• There's a part of me that would love to be in an action movie where I get to run around and punch people in the face and, whatever, be a murderer, I don't care!

  Jenny Slate

  Running, People, Care

  "Jenny Slate and Nick Kroll Q&A: ‘My Blind Brother’ Stars Dig Deep On Complicated Characters You Can’t Help But Root For". Interview with Steve Greene, www.indiewire.com. September 23, 2016.

• I just want to work hard. I love that feeling.

  Jenny Slate

  Hard Work, Feelings, Want

  "Jenny Slate and Nick Kroll Q&A: ‘My Blind Brother’ Stars Dig Deep On Complicated Characters You Can’t Help But Root For". Interview with Steve Greene, www.indiewire.com. September 23, 2016.

• When I go and make smaller films, I actually never think about them being made for a smaller audience.

  Jenny Slate

  Thinking, Film, Made

  "Jenny Slate and Nick Kroll Q&A: ‘My Blind Brother’ Stars Dig Deep On Complicated Characters You Can’t Help But Root For". Interview with Steve Greene, www.indiewire.com. September 23, 2016.

• I want to make every kind of movie that I can make. I don't really care if they're big or small.

  Jenny Slate

  Care, Want, Kind

  "Jenny Slate and Nick Kroll Q&A: ‘My Blind Brother’ Stars Dig Deep On Complicated Characters You Can’t Help But Root For". Interview with Steve Greene, www.indiewire.com. September 23, 2016.

• I think the main thing that affected my comedy was that my dad slept in a nightgown for most of my childhood. And it was just very funny every single night and made me realize that laughter is fun and nightgowns are cool.

  Jenny Slate

  Laughter, Fun, Dad

  "Not My Job: Comedian Jenny Slate Gets Quizzed On Jennifer Lopez". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. December 20, 2014.

• I'd like to do a little bit of everything. I think the only thing I can't do is a British accent, so that's out. No Shakespeare for me. Unless it's like one of those modern-day remakes.

  Jenny Slate

  Thinking, Littles, Modern

  Source: www.esquire.com

• There are so many things I'd like to do. I'd really like to be in a period piece that takes place in old New York or old Hollywood and wear those costumes and that makeup.

  Jenny Slate

  New York, Makeup, Hollywood

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I'd like to be in a female version of The Fugitive. Something where I don't have to be ripped up like an action star, but be a normal, healthy lady who is framed and on the run. I'd have to run from explosions and punch people in the face but not rappel down a building.

  Jenny Slate

  Running, Stars, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I want to keep growing and I want to be an actress for as long as I can.

  Jenny Slate

  Long, Growing, Want

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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.

  Jenny Slate

  Character, Play, Voice

  Source: www.esquire.com