Quotes by Alex Borstein - Page 1

I got my degree in rhetoric.
Alex Borstein / Actress
Degrees
Rhetoric
Degree
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Being an outsider helps breed comedy.
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Breed
Helps
Outsider
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Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.
Alex Borstein / Actress
Comic
Frustrated
Rock Star
Rocks
Stars
Rock Star Star Rock
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The hardest thing in the world to depict dramatically is stand-up.
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Hardest Thing
Depict
Dramatically
The Hardest Thing
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My biggest fear is the ocean. It's a great big, powerful sea toilet.
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Ocean
Powerful
Sea
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I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far.'
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No Point
Morals
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I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far'.
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Moral
No Point
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Losing my grandmother was one of the hardest things I ever had to go through.
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Losing
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Stand-up's hard. It's one of the hardest things in the world, and it's really lonely.
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Lonely
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I always loved performing, but my parents were very practical, middle-class Jewish people.
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Parents People Always
Jewish People
Practical
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I am a fan of whatever makes me laugh my ass off. If it happens to be a Jew joke, then it's a Jew joke.
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Ass
Fans
Laughing
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When I was doing stand-up, there were a lot of things I talked about that seemed very silly but were therapeutic.
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Silly
Therapeutic
Talked
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'Getting On' - that show, it broke my heart. It really was like the greatest love of my life. I'm forever changed by it.
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Broke
Life Love Heart
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Animation is very similar to sketch comedy: you have a short amount of time to do something big and ridiculous and funny.
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Sketch Comedy
Sketch
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Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find you.
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Character
Target Audience
Writing
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Amy Sherman-Palladino is very funny. She's got just natural timing and comedic instinct. And she writes in a comedic rhythm.
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Amy
Comedic
Instinct
Rhythm
Timing
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I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear for accents.
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Different Language
Ear
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I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.
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Girl
Born
Boys
Thinking
Me Parents More
Boy
Me Parents Born
Parents
Instead
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I think all shows change as they age as do the people who make the shows. As do the people who watch the shows. All targets are moving.
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Moving
People
Thinking
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I've spent most of my life writing and developing everything that I've wanted to be in - which is why I started writing in the first place.
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Developing
Life My Life Why
First Place
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'Getting On' is just the coolest experience ever, and working with people like Laurie Metcalf, that's the joy. That's what I love about it.
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Coolest
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I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.
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Destiny
Developing
Over You
Writing
Auditioning
Destiny Your Control
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I love the freedom of voice-over and the ability to play multiple characters I could never play in real life: a hot young woman, a little boy.
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Ability
Multiple
Real
Real Life
Voice Over
Young
Life Love Freedom
Boy
Woman
Young Woman
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My rhetoric degree ended up being very helpful in advertising. I got an internship and then figured I will be a copywriter; that will be my path.
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Advertising
Rhetoric
Figured
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I still get very uncomfortable and flushed on the street if somebody recognizes me or stops me. I don't know what to say. It's uncomfortable and strange.
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Uncomfortable
Stops
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Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.
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Acting
Film Acting
Fun
People
Project
Outcome
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If for no other reason than it's just fun to watch people age, and it's fun to watch what happened to '80s hairdos and outfits, and what they look like now.
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Age
Fun
People
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I think this [Feels like Christmas] is one of the greatest, most unsung albums ever. It's Cyndi Lauper, and it's called Hat Full Of Stars. She's so underrated.
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Hats
Stars
Thinking
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My dad was raised Orthodox in Atlanta. He speaks Hebrew. He speaks Yiddish. He married a Jewish woman who is not Orthodox, so I was brought up by two different kinds of Jews.
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Atlanta
Different Kinds
Hebrew
Orthodox
Yiddish
Jews
Speaks
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I have always been a HUGE Star Wars fan since I was like 5 years old. Most of us in the writers room at Family Guy were big nerds growing up and could recite almost any scene from Star Wars.
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War
Growing Up
Stars
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I don't do sketch anymore and sometimes I miss it. But I think what I really miss is that time in my life, it was kind of like college. No kids, no real responsibilities, just comedy, food and late nights.
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Kids
Real
Responsibility
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I don't want pictures of my kids anywhere. I don't tweet pictures of my kids. I don't put them on any social media. I definitely do like to keep some privacy that way. And mostly, it's fear-based; people are crazy.
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Privacy
Social Media
Anywhere
Mostly
Pictures
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I've always felt like an outsider as a woman. I've never really felt wholly comfortable in a women's world or woman's things. I've never been conventionally pretty or thin or girly-girl. Never felt dateable. All I've seen on TV has never felt like mine.
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Women World Woman
Thin
Wholly
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Guys can look like pigs. The girl always has to be a looker. Look at most TV shows: According To Jim - pig and a looker. Still Standing - pig and a looker. Ralph Kramden [on The Honeymooners] - pig and a looker. Family Guy - pig and a looker. It's a theme.
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Girl
Family Guy
Pigs
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Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing... You're really trying to emulate them, then you realize, 'I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.'
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Developing
Emulate
Hey
Listening
Sound
Trying
Dig
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My uncle is a hemophiliac, and my brother is one as well. I am a carrier, and it's a disease that my kids also deal with. It's something that has affected my family and I for so long, and I think it's actually what drove me to comedy as a means to cope during tough times.
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Affected
Brother
Carrier
Comedy
Disease
Tough
Tough Times
Family I Am Me
Actually
Cope
Deal
Drove
Times
Uncle
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I was kind of the comic relief in my household. We had a chronic illness in the family. And so, a lot of emergency room visits, and my role was to be silly and add levity, and we're Jewish. So every Passover is a performance. You kind of learn to role play and do voices at the Passover Seder.
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Add
Comic Relief
Emergency Room
Illness
Levity
Relief
Silly
Chronic
Emergency
Visits
Voices
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If you believe in romance, and if you believe in marriage, you also have to believe in divorce. It's like, with 'Getting On,' a lot of people say, 'I don't want to watch that. It's so dark.' But you can't just want to go to weddings and children's birthday parties. You've got to witness it all.
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Birthday
Divorce
Romance
Witness
Weddings
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The writing is amazing because having a hand in creating what you're going to be performing... there's nothing like it. It's always going to be better suited for you. You're always going to know the lines faster, because you wrote it. The writing is so very hard. It's the hardest part of the whole process. In some ways the acting is a lot easier and a lot more fun.
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Acting
Fun
Writing
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