Quotes from Jenny Slate

It's important to say that it's not just men that can be man-children. Women can be grown-up women and still have the playfulness of people who are younger.

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.

It's important to say women are complex.

I don't think men have time to be funny because they have to make all of our rules about what we can do with our vaginas.

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.

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.

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

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

We love rom-coms, but it's getting to where we don't identify with any of the women in them.

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

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.

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

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

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.

You're always putting yourself into your work. There's no separation; it's just how you use yourself and transform.

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!

My grandfather was a lot like a white Jewish George Jefferson, and he did not enjoy my work very much.

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.

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

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 spend so much time hoping things for myself.

I don't like taking physical risks at all. I take a lot of emotional risks, and I don't feel like I need to get on a bike or a horse or jump off of anything ever.

Sometimes you watch comedians and feel like they're jerking off in front of you, but they want you to see how big it is.