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

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

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.

Alex Borstein

When I was doing stand-up, there were a lot of things I talked about that seemed very silly but were therapeutic.

Alex Borstein

I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far.'

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

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.

Alex Borstein

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.

Alex Borstein

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

Animation is very similar to sketch comedy: you have a short amount of time to do something big and ridiculous and funny.

Alex Borstein

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

Being an outsider helps breed comedy.

Alex Borstein

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.

Alex Borstein

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

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.'

Alex Borstein

Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.

Alex Borstein

I got my degree in rhetoric.

Alex Borstein

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.

Alex Borstein

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

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

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