Jenny Slate Quotes - Page 2

I just want to be able to be creative.

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

If you make a careless choice, you can really ruin things and it can take awhile for them to repair.

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

I've only been acting since 2009 and I learn more and more with each job. I think I prepare and I'm very focused and I have a good work ethic that I learned in school.

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

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!

When I'm on stage, and when I'm comfortable or uncomfortable, I have sort of a knee-jerk reaction to try to make people laugh. It's my version of a handshake to show that I want to make a connection and to show what I'm truly like. It's kind of my statement like, "This is what I'm really like. I'd like you to love me."

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.

I know that I don't like being teased.

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

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.

A lot of times what's satisfying to me in comedy is when a woman successfully does self-care.

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

You have to be really careful to watch out for the difference between banding together, and being grouped together by people who don't understand you.

I feel a lot of life in me and a lot of creative energy and I think it's better suited somewhere it can run free.

I'm not one to wallow, but I am one to feel the sting of a slap for a while, I think.

When I would go on stage I would start to feel that the eyes that watching me weren't kind. And it took me a while to realize that those eyes were my own eyes.

I have no regrets. The best thing to happen to me was for Lorne Michaels to hire me and fire me.

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

I really like working. I can't think of a job I didn't like.

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

Not often is there as much of a vulnerable side as there is a funny side.

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.

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