224 Quotes by Jenny Slate

But what am I supposed to do with all of the parts of my heart that are only there to be given?

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.

I think I’ve come to terms with the fact that there will always be a ribbon of loneliness running through who I am.

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.

Sometimes you watch comedians and feel like they’re jerking off in front of you, but they want you to see how big it is.

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.

You have to be really careful to watch out for the difference between banding together, and being grouped together by people who don’t understand you.

I am that mysterious stranger that I hoped to meet. I met her at a dark dance. We came here to live together until I could stay by myself. The place is here. The time is now. This is all my lifetime.

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.