Jenny Slate Quotes

You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

It's nice to create something you believe in. It's even nicer to dance to your own tunes sometimes.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. This has been so refreshing for me because it's such a good outlet for the inner me to just be. That's the whole point of 'Glee' anyways - to just be who you are and that's enough. I really feel that way on set.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

In every role, a part of me gets to come out.

On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself.