“I always loved performing, but my parents were very practical, middle-...” — Alex Borstein Quote

“I always loved performing, but my parents were very practical, middle-class Jewish people.”

“'Getting On' - that show, it broke my heart. It really was like the greatest love of my life. I'm forever changed by it.”

“'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.”

“I think the best advice I ever got about acting was from my dad, which was, 'If they don't buy the fish on the first toss, throw it back in the wagon and go to the second house.' Which is like an old Jewish fishmongers' story about how you become a successful fish monger.”

“My mother was a Jewish General Patton.”

“I'm part Jewish and part Christian, but I'm mostly Jewish.”