Top 120 Jenny Slate Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “You will be cleaned by your own focus, by not being seduced into self-indulgence.”

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52. “I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.”

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53. “I am a comedian and I started in stand-up when I was 22.”

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54. “In the mornings of my life, I wake up and I blink my eyes open and I stretch my body with a shudder that holds tension like a string pulled so tight that it makes a musical sound when you pluck it with one finger.”

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55. “I take it as a sign that it is all right to be alive as I am, just as I am, and to keep trying.”

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56. “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.”

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57. “If you make a careless choice, you can really ruin things and it can take awhile for them to repair.”

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58. “My heart can feel like an elephant who is feeling dread and has an exceptional memory and naturally possesses something valuable that might be hunted, poached, wasted.”

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59. “To have to kill even one of my hearts to match up with you is simply not worth it to me, after all that has happened.”

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60. “I just left wishing that it was longer because I enjoyed it so thoroughly.”

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61. “Life has been so discouraging that I have forgotten why and how to fantasize, and I feel weak.”

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62. “I always just wanted to be a movie actress, like Lily Tomlin or Ruth Gordon. I just imagined myself being in a movie, wearing stylish women’s clothing the way I saw Amy Irving wearing it.”

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63. “I stuff each breast into a cotton cup-bag, and the bags are sewn together as a pair of bags for boobs, and the pair of boob-bags is held on by straps because I guess this helps the boobs from not floating past the mountains and white puffs and into outer space?”

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64. “Information about art and nature feels like the best stuff to have, and if you have it, it is powerful and excellent to pass it on.”

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65. “I’m tired of looking for a place in another.”

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66. “But what is so hard is that even when I die my light still stays on.”

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67. “I just want to be able to be creative.”

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68. “There are so many things I’d like to do. I’d really like to be in a period piece that takes place in old New York or old Hollywood and wear those costumes and that makeup.”

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69. “I play a lot of characters where I don’t even speak in my own voice. I learned about focus and I learned to trust that things can work when they’re not heightened and that it’s interesting when things are pared down.”

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70. “I’ve only been acting since 2009 and I learn more and more with each job. I think I prepare and I’m very focused and I have a good work ethic that I learned in school.”

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71. “It is a certain type of person who feels this way that I feel, and I’m proud to be one, and now I see that I must really not forget that the style of what I find beautiful is incredible to me, that it is incredible to feel lucky to want to want what one wants, to be able to see the rings of yourself this way.”

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72. “Who will come into my kitchen and be hungry for me?”

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73. “If you’re in a good marriage, you have the sense that it won’t be forever.”

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74. “I’d like to do a little bit of everything. I think the only thing I can’t do is a British accent, so that’s out. No Shakespeare for me. Unless it’s like one of those modern-day remakes.”

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75. “I don’t make a lot of mistakes, honestly. I’m an A-student, I’m an Ivy Leaguer. I need those things.”

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76. “There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist.”

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77. “Please come close enough so that I can see you, and then I will try to do the rest for both of us, because I have not learned my lesson yet and do not possess the faith to believe in the partner who does his side of the thing. But I would love it if you would, because that would be dreamy and then I would also have that faith. I will give you every single treat.”

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78. “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.”

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79. “You are dear to yourself in the morning and it is the morning now. It is very private to have such a love for yourself. Closer, closer to the curtain. How funny, your face is right right against the curtain now. How funny to know what side of it you are on! You are asleep! How wonderful to pay attention.”

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80. “I said goodbye to all of them and I felt very odd. Something had happened but nothing had happened, really. Nobody touched me but it felt like I had been touched.”

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81. “Look at you! You have done what the earliest geniuses have done: You have taken the most basic thing and elevated it. If you are sweet inside of yourself for the most part, this is the truth you will know.”

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82. “Well, I am so sensitive and I am very fragile but so is everything else, and living with a dangerous amount of sensitivity is sort of what I have to do sometimes, and it is so very much better than living with no gusto at all. And I’d rather live with a tender heart, because that is the key to feeling the beat of all of the other hearts.”

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83. “Not often is there as much of a vulnerable side as there is a funny side.”

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84. “I really like working. I can’t think of a job I didn’t like.”

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85. “There’s no point in trying anymore. Just get down to the bottom. Just be a heap.”

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86. “My vulnerability is natural and permissible and beautiful to me, and it should remind you of your responsibility to behave like a friend to me and the world.”

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87. “Information about art and nature feels like the best stuff to have, and if you have it, it is powerful and excellent to pass it on. That is an act of power, showing what you know, giving it to another person, realizing that as you spread it, you get to keep it but watch it grow, and by watching others have it, you learn new things about the original thing.”

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88. “I would get up just to smell you and give you kisses on your back in the shape of what I could remember of Orion. I could remember mostly just the belt, which is dear but not very impressive. Over and over again on your back every night, the belt. One, two, three cosmic smooches from me to you until you died and then I died, but sometimes in the time before I died and after you died I kissed three stars into the air of.”

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89. “I was a baby and I was running around and my mother didn’t know what to do because her baby was so rowdy and speedy compared to other babies she knew. She couldn’t lock me up or tell me to slow down because I didn’t know why I should listen to her and I just wanted to go fast, so what happened was that she put the little bells on my shoes and that way I was free to roam and she could hear me as I ran ringing through the house.”

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90. “The reason I think that it will be hard to meet someone who I am actually interested in is that I cannot stand these preliminary moments when you can’t deeply know each other and be together forever.”

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91. “If I deny that the root is in me, I will never change.”

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92. “I think the air smells best when all of the tree smells get swirled up by a storm. Big old trees on my street listen to me and watch me in a nice way like I am their niece.”

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93. “I love the house, and every time I go out into the world and get my heart busted up, I retreat back to the old ghostly house in Milton, hoping to become myself again, and to have one more chance, just one more chance to share my heart, and to share it successfully enough that if I become a ghost one day there’s at least another ghost right beside me.”

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94. “A stranger helped me. Specifically, he helped me look into outer space. I said thank you, obviously.”

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95. “I have always known that I would die for love. I think I am dying while or because of waiting for it. I cannot bear how it feels like a surging throng of beats and yells and gasps inside of my small form. I have wondered on many occasions if any confidence I have is just a weird side effect of foolishness and I live under the weight of so much embarrassment, I’m surprised the top of my head isn’t flat.”

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96. “It’s an earned privilege to go to bed knowing that you were kind, and one needs to re-earn it every day, and it’s harder than expected but worth it.”

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97. “The dog’s butthole fell out while he was pooping and they got an operation to put it back in.”

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98. “It is so hard because I was born with a love of useful rules but also somehow I am always dropping and breaking them and it makes me feel very bad.”

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99. “It’s gross. Why are so many men so gross but still we say that they are heroes? And if we try to even talk about it with these men, they get incredibly upset and defensive and call us cruel or insecure, but really, you can’t have it both ways. You can’t do the thing but then not want to ever discuss it. If you want to hide it, maybe it’s not just because “it is private” but because you know, you really do know, that it is gross.”

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100. “You can create and raise the child, but the spirit... the spirit comes from the universe.”

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