Top 151 Quotes & Sayings by Jenny Slate

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.

I think that, unfortunately, people who are maybe threatened by feminism think that it's about setting your bra on fire and being aggressive, and I think that's really wrong and really dangerous.

I think my friends would say I'm pretty goal-focused but whimsical.

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.

There's a lot of different parts to me, so it makes total sense to me that I would do a big TV show or studio movie and then do a free comedy show the next day. They both feel equally important to me.

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

Women love to be asked more about their clothes than their work. We're dolls; we made a wish to become alive.

I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be.

I don't have any horror stories of trying to start as a comedian and eating it constantly on stage.

I would go so far as to say I would not have the life that I have right now if it wasn't for Gabe Liedman. He is the first person I met in my adulthood that I felt was truly delighted by me and understood me and also was curious about me.

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.

I've called myself an accidental activist because I came to it not on purpose.

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.

I think sometimes in comedy the characters are often sacrificed for the joke, and it's more important for it to be funny than for there to be love.

It's strange: I've done so many things up until I did 'Obvious Child,' including writing children's books and making 'Marcel the Shell.' To me, the through-line is incredibly clear: it all comes from wanting to be connected to my own inner voice and not wanting to be on somebody else's agenda if that means that I can't be myself.

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

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.

The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.

I fidget and change my outfit a lot. It's really a way of keeping myself comfortable.

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.

I like any film where the female characters are complex and have a functioning imperfection.

I wanted to be in New York because I wanted to be on 'SNL.' I spent a lot of time wanting to be on 'Saturday Night Live' as a kid. That's what I wanted.

I think of my gender as a part of my complex humanity.

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

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

If I'm going to have baked goods in the morning, the rule is that I have to make them myself.

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

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

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.

I have a big thing about needing to know that I belong - in my group of friends, in my family, in my industry.

I just want to be able to be creative.

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

'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.

I like dressing like I'm going on a date when I'm on stage.

That was something that I learned: It's actually okay if the way that I do my best is when I'm treated well.

I don't know exactly what's next. But I do know now that it's something rather than nothing.

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.

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.

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

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.

Comedy can be a little brutal, but not in a satisfying way.

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

I tend to be really spacey, but I don't think it's because I'm unintelligent - it's just my imagination and a little bit of ADD.

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.

I don't always feel comfortable being outwardly aggressive.

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.

There is something to grace and deportment, but you determine that for yourself. That's something you own.

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

That time when you're waiting for a job can be the most impactful and important time because you develop your preferences as a person. Knowing what you like will make you more confident. And then you'll stand out.

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 always thought that farts were funny, and I always thought that they were mine to talk about because they came out of my body.

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

I didn't hit puberty until I was, like, 17, so I love to talk about that.

I feel I have to be totally cemented in my position, all: 'You can't tell me what to do with my body', but there is another part of me that is, you know, myself: vulnerable, with lots of doubts.

When I was growing up, I was so fascinated by Mel Blanc and all of the different voices that he did for 'Looney Tunes' and watching Robin Williams record voice-over for the genie in 'Aladdin.' It always seemed to be a major honor - something you have to earn. Like people trust you when they want to have you there without seeing you.

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.

People want to see comedies where characters aren't sacrificed for the jokes.

I really like to cook and have dinner parties and I like to clean, it really clears my head and it makes me feel good to keep my home as a comfortable place.

My baseline function is I'm usually really happy and optimistic. I think I really genuinely like being alive, and I've got a spring in my step - that's what I've been like all my life.