Jenny Slate

“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 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.”

“I fidget and change my outfit a lot. It's really a way of keeping myself comfortable.”

“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.”

“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've called myself an accidental activist because I came to it not on purpose.”

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

“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!'”

“There is something to grace and deportment, but you determine that for yourself. That's something you own.”

“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.”

“If I'm not the best aunt in America, then I don't know what's going on.”

“Don't use a pick-up line.”

“I think, in general, finding the right time to have a baby is pretty scary.”

“I like to wear dresses and skirts when I go onstage because the attitude that I have is, 'I'm so excited to introduce myself to you.' And I want to be wearing what I'd be wearing to a date or a dinner party.”

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

“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.”

“I tend to watch things that aren't really the genre of my own work.”

“There's not one type of stand-up, just like there's not one type of woman.”

“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'm usually a fairly harsh critic. It depends. I tend to really not watch my work, because I just feel uncomfortable, and I can be highly critical.”