Jessica Williams Quotes

Jessica Williams

Profession : Comedian

Birth : July 31, 1989

I'm not walking around feeling black all the time. That would stress me out. It would make me crack.

Jessica Williams

'Sex and the City' didn't change the show because it was an international sensation. They kept it in New York.

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I don't really do stand-up.

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When you see the way some people write women, especially in studio movies, it's like, 'Sorry! Sorry for being alive!' Women are so apologetic.

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I wasn't prepared to be so... arrested by Jon Hamm.

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I love it when women are like, 'You guys sound like me and my best friend!'

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We're all trying to catch up with Beyonce. We're all running a race, and Beyonce is up there, and we're all just trying to run and get there. That's my motivation.

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I can be pretty harsh and judgmental. I'm a very harsh and judgmental person. I like morals, right and wrong. I like to see things in black-and-white when I can, so I will hold a lot of guys to an impossible standard.

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Acting-wise, I love Helena Bonham Carter. I love Kate Winslet. I love Angelina Jolie when she was 'Girl, Interrupted' Angelina Jolie. There isn't anybody that I can definitely point to and be like her. Because I've never felt like I've been able to relate to the women that are famous.

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When I was a young lady, I never fantasized about getting married.

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I'm a middle child, so I have middle-child syndrome. With a middle child, you always have to take in everything and adjust and maybe compromise a little bit so you're able to see both sides of an issue. I'm also a Leo - I love astrology - so that affected me, just being a lion.

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Don't try to fix anyone, especially not a dude. They're not going to change.

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Thankfully, I already have a mogul I can pattern myself after: Oprah. We're a lot alike. I'm black, I love to relate things people talk about to myself, and people think my best friend and I are lesbians! My strength is that I'm more relatable.

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For me, so far, confidence has been a journey, not a destination.

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I'm six feet tall. No one realizes that because on 'The Daily Show' I'm usually sitting.

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I loved doing 'Frisky Business.' I didn't come up with it. I think John Oliver and the writers did.

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I think we can topple the patriarchy by using our voices to speak out against things that aren't right and that we don't agree with. I think for people who are not people of color or members of the LGBT community, it is being an ally and being an advocate in spaces that people of color or members of the LGBT community can't really get into.

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I want to write and direct and kind of do my own thing.

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As far as diversity's concerned, there's me, there's Al Madrigal, there's Aasif Mandvi. But I'm not walking around feeling black all the time. That would stress me out.

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There's truth in comedy, and that resonates with people of all races.

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