Jesse Williams Quotes

I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.

Look at Sam Beckett. Most depressed man who ever lived, but he sure was funny.

I've been insane for a long time. An ex-girlfriend of mine once asked, "Is it true that all comedians are depressed?," and I said, "Every one I know is."

If you don't laugh, you're going to cry and people are crying. That's why I guess you have lots of people like comedians to keep us laughing.

A comedian is simply a different kind of therapist. A comedian is a psychologist and a psychiatrist rolled into one. Except I can't prescribe medicine. (You still need a doctorate, which is bullshit.) Okay, so I'm not like a psychiatrist. Fine. But I'm still like a psychologist (except I can't diagnose or treat mental illness).

I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.

I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.

I'm a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you're supposed to feel all kinds of things.

When I did Comic Relief, I did it to be on the show; it's a badge of honor as a comedian to do that show.

There is a cliche that probably has some anecdotal evidence on the side that comedians are very depressed people, but that's because no one is ever going to seem as funny in a normal conversation as compared to when they're up there onstage in the spotlight making a huge audience keel over with laughter.

Humor is an antidote to all ills.

Jason Lee made me laugh all the time because he's so big, and I love how goofy bodies can be.

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.

I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.

Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

I don't perceive my role as a newsman at all. I'm a comedian from stem to stern. You can cut me open and count the rings of jokes.

There's nothing wrong with making people laugh. We all need to laugh. Sometimes I get all these laughs inside of me, and there's no place to let 'em out.

Comedy is saving me.

I had enough therapy to know when I broke it down, it became clearer to me: Yes, comedy was kind of a cleansing thing for me to do.

I know a lot of sad people who aren't comedians.