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.
— Jenny Slate
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 just really like it when things are earnest.
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.
Don't use a pick-up line.
If I'm going to have baked goods in the morning, the rule is that I have to make them myself.
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 think it's important to not just speak to like-minded people.
You're always putting yourself into your work. There's no separation; it's just how you use yourself and transform.
I tend to watch things that aren't really the genre of my own work.
You don't have to be in the brightest, shiniest state of being an individual to feel like you're exceptional.
I spend so much time hoping things for myself.
I know sometimes my Twitter feed is intense, but I take it as a friendly void to scream into. I don't have another way to be.
If I'm not the best aunt in America, then I don't know what's going on.
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.
I always loved to sing and was very, very loud. I wanted to be a movie star, like Judy Garland.
I don't know exactly what's next. But I do know now that it's something rather than nothing.
I've called myself an accidental activist because I came to it not on purpose.
I always wanted to be a children's author, and I have a really big library of children's books. All the ones from when I was little, they are just so beautiful. I read kids' books, and they calm me down.
There's a whole thing now in the entertainment industry that's like, 'You need to write for yourself. Those are the people that are really valuable.' And it's just like, 'I don't want to! I just want to act!'
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 do think that character types trend. As a female comedian, the parts that come my way are often terrible women.
I love waking up in the morning. It makes me feel really excited.
I loved pretending to be a middle-aged Jewish woman. I just wanted to do what I saw Gilda Radner and Carol Burnett doing. But I'm not a particularly good impressionist. It was never my strong suit.
We love rom-coms, but it's getting to where we don't identify with any of the women in them.
I learned my lesson early in my career that it's not helpful to go and look at what other people's opinions are.
It takes a while to realize that just because you're a stand-up comedian and you do comedy, you're not going to be good at all comedy.
I don't always feel comfortable being outwardly aggressive.
I've always wanted to play a normal woman, and I think I have been offered these parts where I play a kook because I'm not the idea of what a normal woman is.
'Saturday Night Live' will always be this amazing, powerful behemoth, but it's also not the only thing happening in comedy anymore.
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.
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 have a big thing about needing to know that I belong - in my group of friends, in my family, in my industry.
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.
You don't realize it until you go out and take a look, but there are so many ways in which sexism is just allowed in our culture, not just in the entertainment industry. It's just allowed to be there, and that's not acceptable anymore. And I think it's really important to be very vocal.
My grandfather was a lot like a white Jewish George Jefferson, and he did not enjoy my work very much.
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?
I really like working. I can't think of a job I didn't like. I was in an Alvin and the Chipmunks movie, which is not my idea of folk art; but I really enjoyed making it, and everyone was really nice.
I think, in general, finding the right time to have a baby is pretty scary.
It makes a lot of sense to me that I would be a cartoon. I feel like a cartoon as a person. I really, really do.
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.
Usually what is difficult for me are things that make me feel scared. That's when difficulties rather than challenges arise.
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.
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 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'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.
People say that the best part about doing animation is that you don't have to dress up to go to work, but I don't believe that. I dress up to go to work. I dress up for an airplane. I think it's just focusing your skillset, focusing on your voice and the comedy.
It's important to say women are complex.
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 fidget and change my outfit a lot. It's really a way of keeping myself comfortable.
