Alex Borstein Professions : Actress Born : February 15, 1973 Browse All Authors Top 37 quotes by Alex Borstein 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. Alex Borstein you marriage birthday children 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. Alex Borstein woman freedom love life 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. Alex Borstein woman dad different two People who have picture-perfect upbringings and lives tend not to be funny. I don't think they write from a position of pain. Alex Borstein think pain funny people Being an outsider helps breed comedy. Alex Borstein breed outsider being comedy I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear for accents. Alex Borstein me language house country Losing my grandmother was one of the hardest things I ever had to go through. Alex Borstein things go grandmother losing '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. Alex Borstein experience joy love people 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. Alex Borstein street know me strange 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. Alex Borstein pictures social-media crazy people Amy Sherman-Palladino is very funny. She's got just natural timing and comedic instinct. And she writes in a comedic rhythm. Alex Borstein she just timing funny Stand-up's hard. It's one of the hardest things in the world, and it's really lonely. Alex Borstein things hard lonely world 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. Alex Borstein my-life place writing life As an actor, you create your own ideas. Alex Borstein your own you ideas The hardest thing in the world to depict dramatically is stand-up. Alex Borstein the-hardest-thing thing hardest world I'm terrible at learning lines. I'm good at learning lines when I don't have to be word-perfect. Alex Borstein good lines learning terrible 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 woman never women world Similar Authors Beatrice Lillie actress Adepero Oduye actress Adrienne Barbeau actress Bindu actress Alexandra Breckenridge actress Bojana Novakovic actress All Authors
