A biography for Jenny Slatehasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“If I'm going to have baked goods in the morning, the rule is that I have to make them myself.”
“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 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.”
“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.”
“The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.”
“I didn't hit puberty until I was, like, 17, so I love to talk about that.”
“I want to write a studio movie, but probably one that's for me to be in.”
“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'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.”
“I don't have any horror stories of trying to start as a comedian and eating it constantly on stage.”
“I would go so far as to say I would not have the life that I have right now if it wasn't for Gabe Liedman. He is the first person I met in my adulthood that I felt was truly delighted by me and understood me and also was curious about me.”
“Comedy can be a little brutal, but not in a satisfying way.”
“Using creative expression as a means to a professional end makes me curl up a bit.”
“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.”
“For some reason, I never watched Lifetime but just discovered it. I was like, 'Oh, it's all rom-coms!'”
“I like any film where the female characters are complex and have a functioning imperfection.”
“You are not waiting for your life to start. It's going on right now.”
“I do think that character types trend. As a female comedian, the parts that come my way are often terrible women.”