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

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Jenny Slate
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: March 25
Actor
Actress
Comedian
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Singer
Stand-Up Comedian
Voice Actor
Writer
Milton
Massachusetts
Jenny Sarah Slate
Jenny S. Slate
Comedian
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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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There was a while when I got really bad stage fright and I basically felt...I was incredibly angry. I felt like everything had been taken away from me and it was at that point that I realized how much doing stand up reminds me of my self love and curiosity about myself and love of other people because I don't go on stage to dominate.
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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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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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I think the reason I like making movies sometimes more than doing TV is that you have one task, you only have a certain amount of time to do it, and then it is done. And I really like focusing in that way.
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I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.
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Nowadays, performers who want to create their own material put it on the Internet. I never knew whether or not it would make an impression - and frankly, I didn't care that much about how it would be received.
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Don't be snarky, but don't be saccharine. Don't pander, but don't shut people out. Go straight down the line with the performance.
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TV can be fairly rigid. I've done enough Network TV to know that it's fun but if I have to go somewhere every day maybe it's not the most satisfying [job].
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Not often is there as much of a vulnerable side as there is a funny side.
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If you make a careless choice, you can really ruin things and it can take awhile for them to repair.
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When I'm on stage, and when I'm comfortable or uncomfortable, I have sort of a knee-jerk reaction to try to make people laugh. It's my version of a handshake to show that I want to make a connection and to show what I'm truly like. It's kind of my statement like, This is what I'm really like. I'd like you to love me.
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I don't like feeling hemmed in and I don't like feeling that I'm repeating myself.
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I want to keep growing and I want to be an actress for as long as I can.
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If you don't respect each other and let it lie, it can be embarrassing or really frustrating.
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I don't want to grow a thick skin. Some people say, Oh, you're an actress, you have to get used to criticism. But I don't accept that. I'll never get used to criticism, and I'll always care about whether or not people like my performances - because I'm an entertainer, and I want to please.
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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.
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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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I'm sure that if I had a partner and that partner cheated on me, that I would be devastated if we were in a committed, monogamous relationship. So of course, it's a devastating thing.
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Although I do stand-up - doing actual stage work is terrifying for me.
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