Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
All Quotes by author - Jenny Slate
" A lot of people think that I'm one of the women from 'Broad City' - and I'm just not. "
Women
City
People
" 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. "
Work
Woman
Ending
" Back at high school, there was this quarterback who asks me out. He's never paid attention to me before, but now we're on this date, going to see the 'Sixth Sense.' And right before the climax, he leans in - and I'm so excited, because I think we're going to French-kiss - and then he tells me the twist. He completely ruins the movie for me. "
High School
Me
Think
" I didn't hit puberty until I was, like, 17, so I love to talk about that. "
Like
Until
Talk
" I got great sex education, and I always knew that if I wanted to be sexually active, I had to have safe sex. "
Sex
Safe
Great
" I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous. "
Some People
Famous
Want
" I just want to be able to be creative. "
Just
Want
Able
" I like any film where the female characters are complex and have a functioning imperfection. "
Complex
Film
Imperfection
" I like dressing like I'm going on a date when I'm on stage. "
Dressing
Stage
Like
" 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. "
Party
Attitude
Dinner
" 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. "
Home
Dinner
Feel Good
" I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be. "
Stupidity
Confused
Think
" I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well. "
Without
Workaholic
Some
" I think of my gender as a part of my complex humanity. "
Complex
Think
Part
" I think that, unfortunately, people who are maybe threatened by feminism think that it's about setting your bra on fire and being aggressive, and I think that's really wrong and really dangerous. "
Fire
Wrong
Think
" 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. "
Life
Happy
My Life
" 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. "
Feel
Sense
Person
" I want to write a studio movie, but probably one that's for me to be in. "
Studio
Me
Write
" 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. "
Dress
Woman
Like
" That was something that I learned: It's actually okay if the way that I do my best is when I'm treated well. "
Way
Well
Best
" There is something to grace and deportment, but you determine that for yourself. That's something you own. "
Yourself
You
Something
" 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. "
Important
Free
Feel
" Using creative expression as a means to a professional end makes me curl up a bit. "
Bit
Up
Professional
" 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. "
You
Growing Up
Honor
" Women love to be asked more about their clothes than their work. We're dolls; we made a wish to become alive. "
Alive
Wish
Women
" 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. "
Go
Culture
Think
Check our other websites:
BookDark
MusicDark