Jenny Slate
10 quotes
Biography
"I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I love waking up in the morning. It makes me feel really excited."
"If I'm going to have baked goods in the morning, the rule is that I have to make them myself."
"'Saturday Night Live' will always be this amazing, powerful behemoth, but it's also not the only thing happening in comedy anymore."
"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."