Alex borstein

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.

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.

I got my degree in rhetoric.

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.

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.

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.

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

My biggest fear is the ocean. It's a great big, powerful sea toilet.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find you.

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.

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.

Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.

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Alex Borstein: Biography and Life Work

Alex Borstein was a notable Actress. The story of Alex Borstein began on February 15, 1971 in Highland Park, Illinois, U.S..

Alexandrea Borstein (born February 15, 1971) is an American actress, comedian, writer, and producer best known as Lois Griffin in Family Guy , for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award , and Susie Myerson in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–2023), which won her two Primetime Emmy Awards .

Legacy and Personal Influence

Personally, Alex Borstein was married to Jackson Douglas (divorced).

Philosophical Views and Reflections

As a film actor, she played Ms. Ungermeyer the school principal in The Lizzie Mc Guire Movie (2003), the best friend of Halle Berry 's character in Catwoman (2004), and an employee at CBS News in Good Night, and Good Luck (2005). She also had a small role in the movie Bad Santa (2003) and an uncredited cameo as an obnoxious coffee shop patron in the Will Ferrell movie Kicking & Screaming (2005). On some commercials, she sometimes voices Olive Oyl from Popeye and Betty Boop .

According to Borstein, "We do Shabbat every Friday night. I'm not that goes to temple all the time—I'm a High Holidays temple goer, and that's about it. But there are traditions," she said in an interview. "Having a mother and a grandmother who are Holocaust survivors , I feel a large responsibility to continue that culture and those traditions—not necessarily the dogma , but what it feels like to be Jewish. I want to instill that in my kids."

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