American - Actress | February 15, 1971 -
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.
Alex Borstein
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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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I never became a road comic.
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I always loved performing, but my parents were very practical, middle-class Jewish people.
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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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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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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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'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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