A biography for Jenny Slatehasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It was so quick for me on 'SNL.' It's not something I consider to be, like, one of the big spaces in my career.”
“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.”
“A lot of people think that I'm one of the women from 'Broad City' - and I'm just not.”
“It's exciting to play someone who is a bit tougher than I am. I liked feeling those adjustments.”
“'Obvious Child,' the short, had a nice life online and a great festival run, but the short and the feature still stand apart from everything else I've done. I play a woman who you might meet in life. My other work is much more heightened.”
“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 always thought that farts were funny, and I always thought that they were mine to talk about because they came out of my body.”
“It's strange: I've done so many things up until I did 'Obvious Child,' including writing children's books and making 'Marcel the Shell.' To me, the through-line is incredibly clear: it all comes from wanting to be connected to my own inner voice and not wanting to be on somebody else's agenda if that means that I can't be myself.”
“You're always putting yourself into your work. There's no separation; it's just how you use yourself and transform.”
“I don't always feel comfortable being outwardly aggressive.”
“I feel I have to be totally cemented in my position, all: 'You can't tell me what to do with my body', but there is another part of me that is, you know, myself: vulnerable, with lots of doubts.”
“I always loved to sing and was very, very loud. I wanted to be a movie star, like Judy Garland.”
“There's a lot of different parts to me, so it makes total sense to me that I would do a big TV show or studio movie and then do a free comedy show the next day. They both feel equally important to me.”
“I just want to be able to be creative.”
“I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be.”
“I really like to cook and have dinner parties and I like to clean, it really clears my head and it makes me feel good to keep my home as a comfortable place.”
“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.”