Zitat des Tages von Jenny Slate:
A woman who is not ready to have a baby making it work is not a happy ending to me. It's a personal nightmare.
I think my friends would say I'm pretty goal-focused but whimsical.
There's so much interference, so much static and people's voices talking about what you do and why you do it that I've learned to be like, 'No, no.' It's actually simple. I just do this.
I always loved to sing and was very, very loud. I wanted to be a movie star, like Judy Garland.
I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.
I never noticed my voice. I did become aware as a little kid at camp that I liked doing accents. We'd do plays and skits, and I realized I loved speaking in voices that weren't my own.
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.
I don't always feel comfortable being outwardly aggressive.
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 just really like it when things are earnest.
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.
A lot of people think that I'm one of the women from 'Broad City' - and I'm just not.
I love waking up in the morning. It makes me feel really excited.
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 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.
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 like dressing like I'm going on a date when I'm on stage.
It's 2014, and the fact that anybody has to fight for the right to do what they want to do with their body in a safe and responsible way is infuriating.
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 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.
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.
I learned my lesson early in my career that it's not helpful to go and look at what other people's opinions are.
I didn't hit puberty until I was, like, 17, so I love to talk about that.
'Saturday Night Live' will always be this amazing, powerful behemoth, but it's also not the only thing happening in comedy anymore.
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.
There's not one type of stand-up, just like there's not one type of woman.
I do think that character types trend. As a female comedian, the parts that come my way are often terrible women.
I grew up idolizing Madeline Kahn and Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett, Ruth Gordon, Rosalind Russell, Amy Irving, women who were stylish and real actresses who did real work and could not be replaced with anyone else. You cannot cast anyone else in Madeline Kahn's roles.
People want to see comedies where characters aren't sacrificed for the jokes.
I've become very interested in the ways things can change even with someone you've known for many years and you've committed to for life. How drastic can you damage things in the way you speak to someone?
'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.
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.
Comedy can be a little brutal, but not in a satisfying way.
The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.
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.
