A biography for Alex Borsteinhasn’t been written yet.
“My rhetoric degree ended up being very helpful in advertising. I got an internship and then figured I will be a copywriter; that will be my path.”
“Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.”
“I never became a road comic.”
“I still get very uncomfortable and flushed on the street if somebody recognizes me or stops me. I don't know what to say. It's uncomfortable and strange.”
“People who have picture-perfect upbringings and lives tend not to be funny. I don't think they write from a position of pain.”
“I don't want pictures of my kids anywhere. I don't tweet pictures of my kids. I don't put them on any social media. I definitely do like to keep some privacy that way. And mostly, it's fear-based; people are crazy.”
“Amy Sherman-Palladino is very funny. She's got just natural timing and comedic instinct. And she writes in a comedic rhythm.”
“I got my degree in rhetoric.”
“I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear for accents.”
“I'm terrible at learning lines. I'm good at learning lines when I don't have to be word-perfect.”
“I've always felt like an outsider as a woman. I've never really felt wholly comfortable in a women's world or woman's things. I've never been conventionally pretty or thin or girly-girl. Never felt dateable. All I've seen on TV has never felt like mine.”
“Losing my grandmother was one of the hardest things I ever had to go through.”