Jessica Williams Quotations

My favorite place in the world is the Harry Potter tour near London.

Basketball would have been the natural sport to play, but it's a little too aggressive for me, so instead I dabbled in volleyball and some good old-fashioned Roller Derby.

I first fell in love with comedy when I'd visit my granny as a kid. Trips to her house meant staying up late drinking Coca-Cola and watching 'Saturday Night Live'.

Get more confidence by doing things that excite and frighten you.

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

Our team knows how important this weekend is. This series could put us back on the top or back to the bottom.

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

You can learn so much just by observing.

Ultimately, when I deliver something, a lot of times it will be from a black woman's perspective, but other times it will be just from a satirical, goofy perspective.

Those teams are very comparable. We felt confident going into today. We weren't about to drop another home game.

Sometimes you get down and you feel defeated, but we did not feel that way at all. We just kept fighting back, getting one run here and one run there. Finally, it was the seventh and we battled and pushed across the winning run.

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.

They really hustle, play solid defense and really hit the boards. The important thing for us is to get in position to box out (to get rebounds) and (offensively) we have to make smarter passes and make better choices.

It's impossible to be perfect, and you won't do a good job if you're too focused on proving yourself to others.

It will stop people from buying cigarettes. A lot of people can't stand the smell of smoke. Some are allergic and don't know it. It gets in your clothes.

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

The last thing I do before bed is think I should take my contacts out. Then I fall asleep.

I'm a young correspondent, so sometimes I'm just young. Sometimes I'm just straightforward.

You don't have to be African American to really enjoy 'Frisky Business'. But as far as being black, a lot of people in New York have been stopped and frisked, so that hits home for them.