Jenny Slate

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.

People say that the best part about doing animation is that you don't have to dress up to go to work, but I don't believe that. I dress up to go to work. I dress up for an airplane. I think it's just focusing your skillset, focusing on your voice and the comedy.

It takes a while to realize that just because you're a stand-up comedian and you do comedy, you're not going to be good at all comedy.

Saturday Night Live' will always be this amazing, powerful behemoth, but it's also not the only thing happening in comedy anymore.

Comedy can be a little brutal, but not in a satisfying way.

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.

People want to see comedies where characters aren't sacrificed for the jokes.

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.

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.

That was something that I learned: It's actually okay if the way that I do my best is when I'm treated well.

I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.

I don't have any horror stories of trying to start as a comedian and eating it constantly on stage.