Jessica Williams Quotes

When an audience is laughing with a character, they make themselves so vulnerable, and they open up. They expose their heart the moment they're laughing, because they're relaxed and they're disarmed.

No one is more himself than the moment when he's laughing at a joke. It's at those moments that people's defenses go down, and that's when you can slip in a good idea.

When we laugh we temporarily give ourselves over to the person who makes us laugh.

I learned to fall down early in life - I was, like, six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.

For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.

People let their guard down a little more when they're eating.

Humor helps people open up.

Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.

It's just certain people that I get the giggles with.

Everybody has a bit of body armor they wear to protect themselves, and love is about trying to break it down. You have to see who a person really is and connect with her to break that armor.

I'm not a protocol fetishist. It's more important to me that people feel at ease when I'm with them.

If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

I want someone that I can have fun with and laugh with. I love to laugh, and I'm really sarcastic, so it's important that she can take a joke. I think if you are going to be with someone for a while, you really need someone you can let loose with and let go of all the stress of the day.

People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they've said.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

People are much more loose if you are having fun. I had a basketball player who was really soft-spoken, and then we played Connect Four with him, and he really opened up!

What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.

I don't know whether it's a fear of standing up, but I really love sitting at the table and blabbing. I learn so much that way, and I think I get free that way, free from inhibition and fears.

If you put busy men in an attractive atmosphere where the surroundings are comfortable, the food is good, you relax, you unwind, there’s stimulating conversation. You know, sometimes quite a lot can happen.

For me, doing an interview with someone is like having therapy.

I quite like to, y'know, chill and catch a vibe where you can actually talk, as opposed to standing on the floor in the club.

Comedy is my soft spot.

I am not a party kind of a person. I like to sit down with friends with a drink and talk.

You need to talk about sex with a sense of humor, especially because sex is a sensitive area for a lot of people.

I strive for honesty because I think that's where the funniest stuff comes from.